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A photo of Bakers Bridge near Durango CO. This is the area that they filmed part of the 'jump' scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.

Running vagrant on windows allows python developers to run *nix in in a VM for python development, which might help with some Windows python issues.

You (and your company) probably don't need machine learning. Most companies just need good data management with good regression modeling.

This is a time lapse + multiple exposures of the Animas River in Durango CO

yhat just released a pandas cheat sheet. I also provided some tip on functions that I use all the time with pandas.

Your data project is going to fail. You can plan everything perfectly, use the best systems, hire the best people yet your project will fail.

A quick tutorial and code to show how to get the 'next' row of data for a pandas dataframe.

A capture of the sunset hitting the Sandia Mountains outside Albuquerque NM.Captured with Canon 5DsR and Canon 16-45 f/4 L.   Purchase a copy of

Using dask, you can easily work with large data sets including large CSV files without loading the data into memory via out-of-core computations.

When working wth large CSV files in Python, you can sometimes run into memory issue. Using pandas and sqllite can help you work around these limitations.

Need help installing python on OSX? This post provides some information and a walk-through of manually installing python on your mac.

Installing python on linux is easy...because its already there. But...you still need to get the various modules installed and configured.

Need help Installing python on Windows? This post can help you get started. In this post I show how to install Canopy on Windows.

A sunset capture of the Sandia Mountain range. Captured with Canon 5DsR and Canon 16-45 f/4 L.

If you are looking to get into data analytics & python, you can't go wrong with starting out with python and the various python modules available.