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Pug Reveal

Pug Reveal

Pug Reveal Slides I recently gave a presentation at the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Data Challenge. I wanted to use reveal to create my slides. I have used it before and it is a really nice package. Compared to PowerPoint it is much easier to incorporate interactive visualizations right into the presentation,easy to re factor and maintain slides. Since you are just working with text you can easily convert from a list of items on one slide to a set of slides. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint # [1] If you have not seen David JP Phillips Death By PowerPoint [2] TEDx, stop now and watch it. You will never look at slides the same again. Watching this video ruined me for watching presentations with these issues. Reveal is a tool that makes it very easy to follow these principles - You are the center of focus - Reduce clutter - Focus your users with - size - contrast Reduce clutter # [3] In the video David talks about reducing the number of points we have down to no more than 6. You...

No More Death By PowerPoint

No More Death By PowerPoint I Waylon S. Walker vow that from this point forward I will no longer create powerpoints to be considerec DEATH BY POWERPOINT If you have not seen David JP Phillips Death By PowerPoint [1] TEDx, stop now and watch it. You will never look at slides the same again. Watching this video ruined me for watching presentations with these issues. Reveal is a tool that makes it very easy to follow these principles I currently work in a company that employs over 100K employees, and to this day I cannot recall a single presentation given where the slides did not violate the rules stated in David’s Talk. This year I am putting a stop to this starting with myself. I am starting a new job role in 2018 and there is no better time to make some drastic changes to my workflow than now. I expect there to be a few followers and many naysayers, but I dont care. I will employ the directives listed below. 1+1=0 # [2] Very few people (if any) in your will be able to multi-tas...

background tasks in python

I have tried most of the different methods in the past and found that copying and pasting the threadpoolexecutor example [1] or the processpoolexecutor example [2] from the standard library documentation to be the most reliable. Since this is often something that I stuff in the back of a utility module of a library it is not something that I write often enough to be familiar with, which makes it both hard to write and hard to read and debug. If you are looking for a good overview of the difference concurrency Raymond Hettinger [3] has a great talk about the difference between the various different methods, when to use them and why. Recently a new python library was released to make running tasks in the background very simple. The background [4] project by Kenneth Reitz is a high level implementation of python 3’s ThreadPoolExecutor. I have been playing around with this project over the last week and I will say that this is definitely the simplest way to run background tasks in pyth...
Pycon 2017 Roundup

Pycon 2017 Roundup

Pycon 2017 Roundup Good afternoon fellow Data Geeks. Last week Pycon [1] released 141 videos of greatness. Here are my top picks from the event. #3 Kelsey Hightower - Keynote - Pycon 2017 # [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_iAXzy3xBA&t=1795s [3] #2 Al Sweigart Yes, It’s Time to Learn Regular Expressions PyCon 2017 # [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abrcJ9MpF60 #1 Trey Hunner Readability Counts PyCon 2017 # [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knMg6G9_XCg What’s on Tap # [6] This afternoon we have a cup of from one of my favorite roasters Thirty Thiry Coffee. This [7] References: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg [2]: #3-kelsey-hightower---keynote---pycon-2017 [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_iAXzy3xBA&t=1795s [4]: #2-al-sweigart-yes-its-time-to-learn-regular-expressions-pycon-2017 [5]: #1-trey-hunner-readability-counts-pycon-2017 [6]: #whats-on-tap [7]: https://www.thirty-thirtycoffee.com/
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Gh Rm Workflow Runs

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