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Data

Data Analysis of Pybites Community Branch Activity

By on 18 October 2018

I wanted to play around with a dataset and see what I could find out about it. I decided on analyzing the little bit of data that I could collect from Github without having to use an OAuth key, which limits it to just 300 events. If you want to follow along with my notebook check out the instructions here. This notebook was my submission for Code Challenge 47 – PyBites First Year in Data (Special).

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PyCon 2018 – My First PyCon

By on 19 May 2018

Going into my first PyCon was pretty daunting. Luckily, the Python community is absolutely incredible so my fears quickly faded. Surprisingly, there was a lot to gain that wasn’t actually technical or code related. Read on for a recap of the experience.

Code Challenges

Code Challenge 49 – Contribute to Open Source: Clean up Planet Python

By on 1 April 2018

Hi Pythonistas, it has been silent on the Community Blog challenges front, but then again we completed the 100 Days of Code in Python course which was a great milestone. Although less frequent, we will keep doing blog challenges though, not to worry! Let’s start with a long pending item: cleaning up Python planets feeds, an interesting and valuable open source contribution.

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5 Things we Learned Co-hosting a Live Code Challenge Workshop

By on 11 November 2017

Yesterday we hosted PyChallengeDay together with Python Alicante. I am sure the folks that joined us stretched their coding skills. And we learned a couple of things too which we will share in this article. Hopefullly it inspires you to host a workshop yourself to grow the awesome Python community.