I’ve been using Spark for close to 2 years now but because I’ve always used it largely on clusters at work, I’ve never really had to struggle with the minutae of enabling monitoring pages like the Spark History Server UI etc.
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What I Learnt from 6 hours of tinkering with FFmpeg
What is FFmpeg?
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Custom CSS extension for Jupyterlab
Jupyterlab is a definite improvement on the older IPython notebook interface - both in features and in appearance. There is now even an in-built “Dark Theme” that can be enabled.
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Setting up Python 3.8, Virtualenv and Jupyterlab on Ubuntu 16.04
I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 on this machine, so that’s what the steps of installation here will be for. But this installation shouldn’t largely vary on any distro that’s 14.04 and higher.
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Git extension for Jupyterlab
Disclaimer : Extensions in Jupyter-lab are still very much experimental. But this one seems to be working fabulously so far.
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Pandas Notes - A Reference
Get rows with NaNs in any column
df[df.isna().any(axis=1)]
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Machine Learning Interpretability (Part 1 of 2)
Webinar Learnings
I attended an interesting Webinar titled “A Data Science Playbook for Explainable ML/AI” conducted by Chief Data Scientist,Josh Poduska, and VP of Marketing, Jon Rooney of Domino Data. This post lays out some of the highlights (in my opinion) of the talk, peppered with my understandings and some additional points...
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Bangpypers Pre-Workshop Setup
A guide to installing a newer version of Python is available here.
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Frequently Used Python Commands
The previous post was for commands Unix. This post is about the Python commands I use or Google frequently.
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Unix Commands I Use
I keep Googling commands for some of these situations regularly -
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My HIPC 2018 conference experience
The HIPC Conference this year (2018) was held at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bangalore, India from 17-20 December. This year, HIPC celebrated its 25th year of running and it was amazing.
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Links I looked up while learning how to configure Nginx and Gunicorn for my Flask application
So, I looked up a lot of links while learning how to configure Gunicorn and Nginx for a Flask app I’m building. An article on the specifics of what I learnt will follow this one. This one focuses on the links and resources themselves -
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Django Filter snippet to Shorten naturaltime format
This is a filter snippet to shorten the natural time value obtained using naturaltime function from humanize.
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Memory Monitor Widget using Python
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and I’ve been searching for a good memory monitoring desktop widget to no avail. I found a couple of taskbar widgets but none that would tell me the free memory left in addition to the used/swap/cache memories.
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Surprising Searches 1 Of N
You’re probably aware of most of the products that Google offers. Trends, is one of them and it allows you to look up various trends of searches by time, country etc. It’s a lot of fun…if you’re into that sort of thing.
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Studying The Show About Nothing
I have watched and re-watched Seinfeld over and over for the last 6–7 years now and it remains, till date, one of my most favorite shows. For a show that claims to be about nothing, it has certainly managed to fill up nine seasons worth of content, all with seemingly...
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Data Visualization Exp2
Alright. Round 2 . FIGHT!
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Data Visualization Exp1
Hours of max FB Usage —
I originally intended to do something else, but ended up doing this instead — Figuring out at what hours during the day I’ve been most active on Facebook — outliers included.
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