Python Weekly (Issue 412 August 29 2019)

Python Weekly - Issue 412

August 29, 2019

Python Weekly

Welcome to issue 412 of Python Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

In this Python data science tutorial, we’ll use Pandas to analyze video game reviews from IGN, a popular video game review site, using data scraped by Eric Grinstein. Which console is winning the “console wars” (in the sense of having better-reviewed games)? This data set will help us find out.

Building a small (or large) command line interface (CLI) for a project is a great way to get an entire team to build, test, debug, and work with a project in the same way using the same set of tools. This post goes into detail about how to think about a project’s CLI and implementing one using the Invoke Python package.

Tracking the desktop applications in real time and time spent on each application.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a scalable image hashing search engine using OpenCV, Python, and VP-Trees.

This post describes how to build a face detection tool with a neural network. The full conception is described, from the design to the implementation.

How to Create a One Line List Comprehension for Matrix Multiplication in Python.

As you have already know I love optional static typing. The thing is that sometimes it is not optional, but impossible. Because we have plenty of big untyped projects in Python’s ecosystem. Django and Django-Rest-Framework were two of them. Were. Because now they can be typed! Let me introduce TypedDjango organisation and stubs for django and drf. This is going to be a concise tutorial and getting started guide.

Firebase Hosting is more than static files. Learn how to set up dynamic server code in combination with Firebase Hosting’s CDN.

An introduction to the new `/` syntax in Python 3.8.

How to write GraphQL compliant apis with Python.

Use SMOTE and the Python package, imbalanced-learn, to bring harmony to an imbalanced dataset.

This article describes how to use pandas to read in multiple Excel tabs and combine into a single dataframe.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Grover is a model for Neural Fake News -- both generation and detection. However, it probably can also be used for other generation tasks.

A free JupyterHub for everyone.

portray is a Python3 command line tool and library that helps you create great documentation websites for your Python projects with as little effort as possible.

Tool that limits bandwidth of devices on the same network without access.

Brute-Force all sklearn models with all parameters using .fit .predict!

rapidtables is a module for Python 2/3, which does only one thing: converts lists of dictionaries to pre-formatted tables. And it does the job as fast as possible.

KMS Server Emulator written in Python.

Uplift modeling and causal inference with machine learning algorithms.

A supercharged SQLite library for Python.

Deep Hough Voting for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds.

An object-oriented text RPG based loosely on the rules of Original Dungeons and Dragons.

Represent Visual Objects by Point Sets.

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