Issue #518

James Webb Telescope, Large JSON Files, Pillow, and More

March 29, 2022

James Webb Telescope, Large JSON Files, Pillow, and More
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Python and the James Webb Space Telescope
Python is used extensively in the data pipeline for the James Web Space Telescope. Michael Kennedy interviews Megan Sosey and Mike Swarm from the project and they talk all about it.
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Processing Large JSON Files Without Running Out of Memory
Loading complete JSON files into Python can use too much memory, leading to slowness or crashes. The solution: process JSON data one chunk at a time.
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Image Processing With the Python Pillow Library
Learn how to use the Python Pillow library to deal with images. Combine this with some NumPy for image processing and to creating animations.
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Becoming More Effective at Manipulating Data With Pandas
Do you wonder if you’re taking the right approach when shaping data in pandas? Is your Jupyter workflow getting out of hand? This week on the show, Matt Harrison talks about his new book, “Effective Pandas: Patterns for Data Manipulation.”
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How To Classify Text With Python, Transformers & scikit-learn
Natural Language Processing is a powerful tool for gaining semantic knowledge about text based data. Text classification is about categorizing such data and scikit-learn is popular toolkit that does this and more.
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Scout APM: Find and Fix Performance Issues with Ease
Scout’s APM tool pinpoints and prioritizes performance and stability issues in Python applications. With Scout’s tracing logic, developers can detect the exact line of code causing the performance abnormality, and with detailed backtraces, you can fix the issue before customers ever notice →
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Validating JSON Documents Using Pydantic
Pydantic is a popular Python library for doing data validation. This article introduces you to how to use it to specify and validate against a schema for your JSON encoded data.
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Deploying a Django Application to Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS service that wraps hosting and deploying inside of the AWS environment. Learn how to deploy production-ready Django to Elastic Beanstalk.
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How to run uWSGI
uWSGI has loads of options to choose from, how do you know which ones to choose? This article talks about the more common settings and how to pick good values.
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Python Class Constructors: Control Your Object Instantiation
Learn how class constructors work in Python and explore the two steps of Python’s instantiation process: instance creation and instance initialization.
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Setting Up a Basic Django Project With Poetry
Poetry is a package dependency management tool. In this article you’ll learn the step-by-step process for setting up a Django project using Poetry.
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Up Your Coding Game and Discover Python Issues Early
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The Right Way to Compare Floats in Python
Floating-point numbers are prone to errors. Learn why floating-point errors are common, why they make sense, and how to deal with them in Python.
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Python Virtual Environments and Package Management
Modern Python projects need a bit more than venv and pip. Learn about the best tools for package management and environment isolation.
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