Naughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe to some audiences) is a popular skill game often played by children. It can also be usefully employed to distract dial up computers, at NORAD for example, rather than allowing the ‘playing’ of Global Thermonuclear War. Would you like to play a game?
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Cleaning Text Data With Python
By David Colton on 30 September 2020
Machine Learning is super powerful if your data is numeric. What do you do, however, if you want to mine text data to discover hidden insights or to predict the sentiment of the text. What, for example, if you wanted to identify a post on a social media site as cyber bullying. In this article we introduce some methods to clean your text and prepare it for modelling.
There is More Than One Way to Solve a Bite Exercise
By Harrison Morgan on 21 August 2020
According to the Zen of Python, “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” It’s a good principle for designing a program: the more ways there are of doing something, the more confusing the software becomes, along with a host of other problems. In reality, though, there almost always is more than one way to accomplish something. The quotation even displays this fact: it places the dash in two different ways, neither of which are the obvious way.
Analyzing covid-19 data with pandas and matplotlib
By Cedric Sambre on 13 July 2020
One moment I was solving a pandas challenge, next I was analyzing real world covid-19 data with python…
Assertions About Exceptions With pytest.raises()
By AJ Kerrigan on 18 May 2020
It’s useful to test for exceptions exceptions in your code. A handy feature of pytest makes that fun and flexible!
Dropping Tutorial Paralysis, Building a Django Blog From Scratch
By Peter Babalola on 21 April 2020
Have you ever wanted to create awesome stuff with Django like making your own blog or any other app but don’t know where to start? Or are you tired of taking lazy tutorials?
Exploring the Mutpy Library and How PyBites Uses it to Verify Test Code
By Harrison Morgan on 9 February 2020
A while back we launched our Test Bites. In this follow up article Harrison explains the MutPy mutation testing tool in depth and how we use it to verify test code on our platform. Enter Harrison.
There’s no Wrong Way… to Eat a Bite of Py
By AJ Kerrigan on 27 November 2019
There are many ways to tackle a Bites of Py exercise, try them all!
Under the Hood: Python Comparison Breakdown
By AJ Kerrigan on 27 October 2019
Use Python’s “dis” module to see how Python evaluates two similar comparison operations.
The First Step in Contributing to Open Source Projects
By Marc Falzon on 20 June 2019
Have you ever wanted to contribute to open source but weren’t sure how to get started? Marc found himself in just that situation. Sometimes it all comes down to taking that first step.