flyaway

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by flyaway 9y ago
I spend about 8 months of the year teaching pandas to journalism students, and it's a wild ride! Despite some of the iffy syntax and pandas' seeming inability to standardize parameter names, the students seem to grok the workflow
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by flyaway 9y ago
That's fantastic! A perfect combination of tech and use case.
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by flyaway 9y ago
If you're looking to get into Landsat imagery yourself, I highly recommend the command line tool landsat-util[1] (although you do need to install it using Python 2). It allows you to search with lat/lon pairs, cloud cover, etc, an
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by flyaway 9y ago
Apples don't really all have the same "season" - even though they have a time to be picked, more tart apples are meant to be stored in cool conditions, with the starches converting to sugars and the acidity dropping over time
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by flyaway 9y ago
> [the judge] made the extraordinary finding that Public.Resource.Org is engaged in "commercial" copying despite being a nonprofit, stating that the organization "profits" by "the attention, recognition, and cont
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by flyaway 10y ago
> It would be a lot more representative of today's work if you were asked: given these 3 github repos with packages that all purport to do X, which one would you pick for this set of requirements and why? I play this game with my st
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by flyaway 10y ago
It's pretty cheap to have soil samples tested, but it winds up just confirming what you expect - our NYC backyard had 18x the upper limit for lead! Definitely raised beds.