Archives of Python

Applied Parallel Computing at PyCon 2013 (March)

Minesh B. Amin (MBA Sciences) and I (Mor Consulting) are teaching Applied Parallel Computing at PyCon in San Jose in just over a month, here’s an outline of the tutorial. The conference is sold out but there’s still tickets for the tutorials (note that they’re selling quickly too). Typically a recording of the tutorial is […]
11 years ago

Map/Reduce (Disco) on millions of tweets

Whilst working on data sciencey problems for AdaptiveLab I’m becoming more involved in simple visualisations for proof-of-concepts for clients. This ties in nicely with my PyCon Parallel Computing tutorial with Minesh. I’ve been prototyping a Disco map/reduce tutorial (part 2 for PyCon) using tweets collected during the life of SocialTies during 2011-2012. Using 11,645,331 tweets […]
11 years ago

Office social graph connectivity using NetworkX

I wanted an excuse to play with the Python NetworkX graph visualisation library and recently I joined AdaptiveLab to consult on some data science & visualisation problems. Thus formed the question – how were we all connected together? I figured that looking at who follows us all will yield a little insight into the people […]
11 years ago

aMaking “from lxml import etree” work with virtualenv (Python)

Update – these steps are overly complicated and *unnecessary*! See fizyk and Marius’ comments below. I’ll leave this post just in case it helps anyone – hopefully anyone coming here will realise it isn’t hard (now) to install lxml, as long as the OS dependencies are installed I use virtualenv for all development. Recently I […]
11 years ago

EuroSciPy Parallel Python tutorial now online

I taught Parallel Python at EuroSciPy 2012 last week in Brussels, I’ve uploaded all the necessary stuff. In the talk we covered: multiprocessing (built in) parallelpython (an easy shift from multiprocessing to do mult-machine and -core processing) gearman (cross-platform job server for heterogeneous job processing) picloud.com (was python only, now any infrastructure cloud-based processing using […]
12 years ago

EuroSciPy2012 Parallel Python tutorial requirements now online

My EuroSciPy 2012 Parallel Python tutorial requirements are online in this github repo. If you’re coming to my tutorial next Thursday please make sure everything is installed beforehand. The repo includes the slides (not quite yet finished) and a ‘solutions/’ directory which you shouldn’t peek at (that’s there in case we run behind in the […]
12 years ago

Kinect depth maps and Python

I had the opportunity to play with a Kinect over the weekend, I wanted to test out depth mapping using the built in infra red cameras. Using a structured light approach is different to the stereopsis approach I was looking at with Kyran recently. Using the open source drivers for Ubuntu I quickly got the […]
12 years ago

Parallel Computing with Python Tutorial at EuroSciPy (end of August)

I’ll be teaching Parallel Computing with Python (abstract to follow) at EuroSciPy on 23rd August 2012 in Brussels. Early bird tickets for the conference are available until July 22nd (even without the 50% discount the cost is still super-low). In my tutorial we’ll work through parallel processing examples on 1 machine with multiple cores and […]
12 years ago

StrongSteam’s first novel OCR matching API (Python demo)

Here’s a preview of our first novel API in StrongSteam. We’ve been working with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for a while, we set ourselves the task of matching a noisy photograph of some text to a pre-seeded database of entries. If you follow my blog you’ll already have seen our example iPhone app for the […]
12 years ago

Python Introductory Course (OpenSource, StartupChile)

We’ve just run 5 of the 6 nights of our Introductory Python course here in Santiago for StartupChile. The course aims to ‘give back’ to the Chilean economy by helping more people learn to program (we had a mix of locals and StartupChile members in our classes). In total we’ve taught 25 people (only 5 […]
12 years ago