Text to speech is a tool available in most operating systems, and helps people with reading and sight difficulties, or can be used as part of a ‘Jarvis‘ helper on your computer. Python has a few options for dealing with text to speech, generally in the form of wrappers for speech engines. This post goes… Read More »
Logging can offer much more flexibility than simply printing a message to the console but it can be difficult to know where to start. This post looks a some examples of simple python logging to get you started. Why ‘log’ instead of ‘print’? Printing to the console is usually one of the first things you… Read More »
A few ways to do linear regressions on data in python. Linear regression is a simple and common technique for modelling the relationship between dependent and independent variables. This post gives you a few examples of Python linear regression libraries to help you analyse your data. Which method is best for you will probably depend… Read More »
Make pandas boxplots more readable by sorting. Plotting with pandas dataframes usually works well, and makes it easy explore and visualise data. With simple pandas code like this: you can easily make charts like this from your dataframes: Sort Pandas Boxplots The default pandas boxplot easy easy to use, but it can be more clear… Read More »
Data tables often come in a format that makes sense to the human who created the table, but that’s difficult for analysis. To make analysis easier we can reshape the data into a more computer-friendly form. Pandas is a python data analysis library and in this post I reshape pandas data with melt. A Reshape… Read More »