Until recently, NumPy in Python had simple, but useful financial functions. These NumPy Financial functions are extremely handy for many personal finance questions, like estimating how much interest you have to pay on a loan and how your money grows with a monthly investing plan with a certain interest rate. Recently, the financial functions are […]
How To Make Lower Triangle Heatmap with Correlation Matrix in Python?
Visualizing data as a heatmap is a great data exploration technique for high dimensional data. Sometimes you would like to visualize the correlation as heatmap instead of the raw data to understand the relationship between the variables in your data. In this post we will see examples of visualizing correlation matrix as a heatmap in […]
R For Data Science Book Gets tidyr 1.0.0 Friendly
R for Data Science book by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham is the best book for doing data science with tidyverse. tidyverse, the meta-package, has loads of useful packages like tidyr, dplyr, and ggplot2 to make your life as data scientist easy. Last fall, tidyr package got a big update with version 1.0.0. Until now, […]
Pandas 1.0.0 is Here: Top New Features of Pandas You Should Know
Pandas 1.0.0 is ready for prime time now. Pandas project has come a long way since the early release of Pandas version 0.4 in 2011. It had contributions from 2 developers including Wes Kinney then, now Pandas has over 300 contributors. The latest version of Pandas can be installed from standard package managers like Anaconda, […]
Slides from RStudio Conference 2020 #rstudioconf
RStudio Conference 2020, one of the biggest R/data science conferences ended this week. Among many interesting things at the conference, one of the biggest announcements was that “RStudio has become a Public Benefit Corporation“. This year’s RStudio conference was at San Francisco and next year RStudio conference 2021 will be at Orlando, Florida. For all […]