Ubuntu Virtual Machines (VMs) On-Demand multipass is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool for the quick deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs) dominated by Ubuntu but other Operating Systems and applications are available. With a general trend of migrating away from VMs to containers (with the exception of microvms like Firecracker)…

Creating a pipeline to download, compile and create an OCI compatible container. I came across some an old odd file format with extension .ccd belonging to the now defunct Clone CD application, that was all the rage in the early 2000s. The program was originally created by a company called…

Common Options and Best Practices — Scope The article is intended for readers that have some familiarity with at least one plotting library, and within the python ecosystem that is likely to be matplotlib . …

The Lessons Learnt from Reviewing over a Hundred Intern Applications — Scope Distilling the lessons learnt from over a hundred Data Science intern applications where the majority of the candidates were not selected for interview. The focus of this article is on what and how to communicate rather than what technical skills to acquire. Contents Introduction Importance of Reading the Intern Advert Cover…

Improve your workflow with Jupyter Hub, ipykernel and systemd — Scope As an avid user of Jupyter Notebooks and/or Lab, this guide shows how to automatically start-up Jupyter server allowing you to select your desired Python environment using the web interface and then start coding. If like me, your typical workflow was to start a terminal, activate your desired Python virtual…

Manipulate Time Zone Aware and Naive datetime objects — Scope Flight tickets state the departure and arrival date and time but with their respective local Time Zones, which can make working out how long the flight is a bit tricky. In this article, the Delorean library is introduced and along with pandas, datetime objects with Time Zone information are manipulated…

Kaggle Grandmasters tackle character recognition for the fifth most popular native language, how to choose the right colour scheme for your plot and useful Python newsletters. Scope The Nvidia Machine Learning (ML) Grandmasters took part in the Kaggle competition for the character recognition of the World’s fifth most popular native language…

Useful python functions to prepare for “Big Data” processing, the advantages of Nomad over Kubernetes and Visual Studio Codes’s next-generation code completion for Python. Scope Links to three interesting and wide ranging topics on Data Science, from understanding key features of python as a means of preparing to process “Big Data”…

Selecting articles from a Pocket list curated over the last 5 years on Data Science. Scope Utilising a wide range of articles saved on Pocket and their application to Data Science. Introduction The purpose of the Data Science Shorts series is to summarise articles from a vast library of articles I’ve stored…