Code Challenge 57 – Analyze Olympic Games Data With Pandas – Review

In this article we review last week’s Analyze Olympic Games Data With Pandas code challenge.

Community Pull Requests

Another 12 PRs this week, cool!

[bobbelderbos@imac challenges (community)]$ git pull origin community
...
From github.com:pybites/challenges
 * branch            community  -> FETCH_HEAD
   028277e..3873c66  community  -> origin/community
Updating 028277e..3873c66
Fast-forward
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 45 files changed, 37652 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Check out the awesome PRs by our community for PCC57 (or from fork: git checkout community && git merge upstream/community):

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You can look at all submitted code here and/or on our Community branch.

Here are the Pythonic learnings we spotted in Pull Requests made during the last week:

PCC03

Learned about difflib SequenceMatcher and collections Counter. – PR

PCC04

I finally worked with an API in python, I found little more information about working of unittests, got to know little more about CSV module. – PR

PCC16

learned about the IP address lookup API – PR

I learn how to make http request to remote database (in this project used RIPE DB) and how to parse JSON output from DB – PR

Learned how to use PRAW module to interact with Reddit API. Managed to get the top topic submissions per valid subreddit topic. – PR

PCC26

I learned how to use PyQt5, python GUI framework. I managed to get familiar on views events, especially on click. Also, managed to play with PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets to load a webpage of a given URL – PR

PCC54

Gained more experience representing datetime objects as strings in the format I want them, used error handling to make my code more concise, and found the useful string method splitlines() which gives a list of all strings separated by newlines. I can easily insert an element into the list and then reform the list into file contents. This is much easier than parsing through a string of all the file contents to find a certain location. – PR

PCC57

Nice one to get back into Pandas, this helped: https://pybit.es/guest-marvel-data-analysis.html – still some work to be done like merging countries and more plotting, but moving on for now. – PR

Definitely. Learned that I still have a lot to learn about Pandas 🙂 – PR

The Git was the most challenging part – but good practice! I got a little distracted trying to solve new problems. – PR

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