Issue #222: Thursdays

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News

Django 1.10 beta 1 released
The first beta for Django 1.10 is out. Check it out, give it a try and report any issues.
djangoproject.com
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Discussion

What are your favorite smaller or lesser-known Python data analysis tools?
reddit.com
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Annoy /r/python in one sentence
reddit.com
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What's your favorite Python quirk?
reddit.com
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Python Jobs

Python/Django Platform Developer (London, UK)
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Senior Platform Engineer (Bellevue, WA)
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Projects

SolarSystemOrbiter
Plot orbits of our planets. Calculate Hohmann Transfer Orbits between them and extract movies of the motions in the Solar System.
github.com
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Coconut
Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.
github.com
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MarkDownHelper
Drop more than one img to .py file and it will auto run and generate markdown url in a txt file.
github.com
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socli
Stack overflow command line client. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal.
github.com
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Pwndbg
Makes debugging suck less.
github.com
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Instant-Movie-Streamer
Streams the movies/ tv series instantly.
github.com
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Slope
E. Tufte slope graph implementation in Python
github.com
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mplleaflet
Easily convert matplotlib plots from Python into interactive Leaflet web maps.
github.com
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netuse
Network Usage Monitoring for Linux.
github.com
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cant
For those who can't remember how to get a result.
github.com
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pydexter
Simple plotting for Python. Render charts in the browser with simple Python syntax.
github.com
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Articles

72% Of The People I Follow On Twitter Are Men
A look at diversity and how to identify genders of your python followers (and who you follow).
emptysqua.re
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Software carpentry instructor training
A look at the Software Carpentry instructor training data in the context of survival analysis.
byronjsmith.com
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Python, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and PGA Tour Stats
Primer for loading data using Python, Postgres, and SQLAlchemy!
bigishdata.com
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Python object ids and mutable types
jacksimpson.co
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A New Way to Measure Customer Service
This is interesting, a new way to measure your customer service in 3 dimensions. Nice post about the methodology and includes link to the Jupyter notebook demonstrating the visualizations.
modeanalytics.com
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Detecting cats in images with OpenCV
This is a fun one, as the title says, learn how to detect cats in your images using openCV.
pyimagesearch.com
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Web Service Efficiency at Instagram with Python
Awesome article on improving Django Efficiency and limiting costs at scale!
instagram.com
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ank
Python microservices for Queue, Streaming, REST-API and Schedule task.
github.com
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An Introduction to Mocking in Python
Primer for those of you new to Mock and Python.
slviki.com
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Writing online multiplayer game with python and asyncio [Part 3] - @7webpages
7webpages.com
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