Tox is a tool for building and running a matrix of test environments. This is useful when, for example, you need to support several different versions of python. You don’t want to have to manually ...

Heroku is a ‘platform as a service’ (PaaS) cloud provider. Heroku makes it easy to deploy apps by pushing to git repositories or using docker containers. This post shows you how you can deploy dock...

Vagrantfiles are used to configure vagrant virtual machines. This post goes a little beyond the basics of creating a Vagrantfile, and looks at some of the more advanced topics for writing a vagrant...

Matplotlib is the excellent workhorse plotting library for python. As great as matplotlib is, it could occasionally do with a little stylistic improvement [1] [2]. I recently came across a cool fea...

Networkx is a python package for working with graphs and networks. Networkx is capable of creating a graph from within a python script, but you may also want to load a graphs from file. This post l...

Networkx is a python package for creating, visualising and analysing graph networks. This post gives a simple networkx example to show how it works. A simple Networkx Example A graph network is bui...

Flask is a lightweight python web framework which can used for creating RESTful APIs. This post shows you how to make a simple Docker Flask SQLite API. This post builds on the excellent Flask API L...

Making predictions is easy, but getting them right is difficult. An essential part of predictive analytics is model validation - checking the quality of predictions. Those post looks at a simple mo...

The ROC Curve is a commonly used method for and evaluating the performance of classification models. ROC curves use a combination the false positive rate (i.e. occurrences that were predicted posit...

Python iterables are lists, tuples, dictionaries and other similar objects - in other words things that can be iterated over. Python provides a way to ‘unpack’ these iterables which can be a useful...