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I've authored a Packt book - it isn't of high quality. It was a good experience, but they don't provide the resources needed (help and monetarily) for doing good work.

http://gist.io/ is kinda like that.

There's a lot of claims (and rightfully so) about the right losing the demographic game to the left. If there's one area where the right may be on the "right" side with young peopl…

Analysts in finance/consulting certainly haven't had to upgrade their skills, but analysts in media/marketing definitely have had to. Certainly there are people in this space who c…

A few projects now have a "good as a first PR" tag for issues... This is great for helping people get started.

Fernando Perez (the force behind IPython) has done several in depth tutorials at various pydata confs... I'd start there.

Thanks for this working on this project. I've used it before with success. I don't think python on hadoop is the answer for complex map/reduce jobs, but this project has fit an nic…

This is my biggest gripe, otherwise I like it. Visually the design is pretty, but in terms of representing information it leaves a lot to be desired.

As always, it's how it's presented that matters. I always ask for general demographic information when I interview with a company. It isn't about being sexist (well maybe it is aga…

At this point, I might argue for IPython Notebook.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason the matrix being sparse is mentioned is because the author stuck a bunch of 0s in the matrices... this solution should work regardless …

As a person who's done GA implementations and subsequent reporting on around 100 websites this is correct. On a side note, a tangential GA issue was recently discussed on HN and ne…

With all due respect that's a long time to use GA without understanding how it works. Here's a good article by Google's GA evangelist I would highly recommend to everybody in this …

Like has been mentioned by many, this is incorrect interpretation... and quite common to see on blogs or single page sites. Although technically it's not dependent pageviews, but i…

Some would argue why it can't be more like IPython. :) But agreed, good work... tab completion is very helpful when learning a language.

I know how you feel... I didn't start until I was 21 and I'm 25 now. If you try to compete with somebody who has been coding since they were 10 on pure coding talent you'll lose. B…

That's pretty nifty - thanks. EDIT: Also, I have used bpython, but since I use python more on the data side as opposed to web (or something not data) IPython along with everything …

Bpython is good, but IPython with %edit and knowledge of a command line text editor has changed my workflow[1]. I wish more repls had this ability. [1]: Maybe you can do it Bpython…

I know MBAs get shit on a lot around here (and I am not one, but close) this really is a simple expected value proposition. Something an MBA is introduced to early. On the one hand…

Two things: 1. I wish the author would define "market share" - is it % of users, percent of pageviews via that browser, or something else. 2. The adoption visualization really show…

I mostly agree with this, because I do like Ruby even though I don't use it. The missing link here, and the reason Python gets more love from the data community, is that Python sca…

This is similar to the Adobe article on HN yesterday. Link bait for real improvement through statistical analysis, then the article undelivers.