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Ah, summer. A time to relax, go on holiday, and learn new things. At the eScience Center, we love summer. And we love Python. So, for summer, we’ve put together our most popular blogs on favourite Python tools that our (former) engineers either worked on, or use a lot. We hope you enjoy this curated list!
Jump start your Python project with this template by Janneke van der Zwaan, talks about the Python project template developed at the eScience Center. This template helps beginners to get started, and advanced Python users to save time. And who doesn’t love saving time?!
Parallel programming in Python by Johan Hidding and Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez. Have you ever been in a hurry to complete an analysis, but did it take very long to run? In this step-by-step tutorial Johan and Pablo show you how to call in all of your processors for help.
Forget about Jupyter Notebooks — showcase your research using Dashboards by Stef Smeets. The title says it all — if you’re looking for a different and interesting way to present your research, consider using dashboards. You’ll find it surprisingly easy with Stef’s tutorial.
Loading irregular data into Pandas using C++ by Patrick Bos. Who doesn’t love Pandas? Well, quite a few people, because it loads data slowly. But you can make it faster! Check out how in this post.
Testing shell commands from Python by Janneke van der Zwaan. Do you ever need to test shell commands, but find it fiddly and annoying? Janneke found a solution in Python that works well, maybe it works well for you too!
And what about you? What’s your favourite Python tool? Let us know in the comments below and, most importantly, enjoy your summer.
