📡 Python radar - February 2023
A personal selection of Python-related news and projects that caught my attention this month (note: leading emojis are mine).
🖥️ Introducing the new JupyterLab Desktop! (blog.jupyter.org)
The Desktop version of JupyterLab, easily installable on your machine via a simple executable.
🤖 GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy (jaykmody.com)
An extremely detailed article on building a small educational GPT model using only NumPy.
🦀 Ruff: An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust (beta.ruff.rs)
To check the code quality of your Python project in record time, just a few seconds for large projects according to the documentation.
📊 Kanaries/pygwalker: Turn your pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis (github.com)
A new and very promising project that allows you to explore a dataset by easily creating drag-and-drop visualizations, definitely worth trying!
🐼 pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution (part I) (datapythonista.me)
One of the core developers of pandas explains the advantages that the Apache Arrow library brings as a backend for pandas in managing in-memory data.