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 »
XML, or Extensible Mark-up Language, is a set of rules for encoding data and documents in a way that is both human and machine readable. XML excels where you need to transfer data between different systems, as there is almost always going to be an XML parser available. In this post I take a quick… 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 »
Find out where to find sample datasets for playing with data in Python. If you’re testing or validating a model or analysis for data science or machine learning, it can be useful to have some sample data to play with. R has the datasets package which makes loading sample datasets easy, but it’s not so… Read More »