www.pydata.org PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the internat... (more…)

Most complex software applications need some form of configuration, often through a configuration file. The more complicated the app, the more difficult become the choices between offering flexibility and improving usability. Configuration... (more…)

In short: It's useful commercially once you have learned it. It is easy to get started, no IDE required. It is extremely popular a... (more…)

I’ve always wondered how in a country where only 6.50% of the population has access to electricity, telecommunications companies manage to…...

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)