The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator. The raw data comes from Google Trends. (more…)

A slightly earlier draft of this post was a response to a question on the intfiction.org forums. It's been moved here because it might be interesting outside of that context. Other posts in this... (more…)

About a year ago, smack in the middle of the pandemic, I turned to the internet for some retail therapy. I’m a musician, so my usual retail therapist of choice is Reverb.com; a sort of fancy Craigslist or eBay just for musicians. Every day, I... | Peter S... (more…)

Sentiment analysis of Trump's tweets using tweepy, and textblob. (more…)

Welcome to the third post in our series on Python at scale at Instagram! As we mentioned in the first post in the series, Instagram Server… (more…)