Another TextBlob release (0.6.1, changelog), another quick tutorial. This one's on using the TF-IDF algorithm to find the most important words in a text document. It's simpler than you think.
TF-IDF stands for "Term Frequency, Inverse Document Frequency." It's a way to score the importance …
Yesterday, TextBlob 0.6.0 was released (changelog), which introduces Naive Bayes classification. This tutorial shows how to use TextBlob to create your own text classification systems.
The tutorial assumes that you have TextBlob >= 0.6.0 and nltk >= 2.0 TextBlob >= 8.0 installed. If you don't yet have …
This past weekend, I released KillTheYak.com, a website with guides for installing and using various tools. It's a static site powered by Flask and hosted for free (as in beer) on Github Pages.
Static Flask sites are a big win because:
Lazy evaluation is a useful pattern that can improve your code's efficiency in many situations.
One example of this is instance attributes that take long to compute:
This approach may cause initialization to take unnecessarily long, especially when you don't always need to access Person#relatives.
A better strategy would …
A startup is just a means to an end. Consider the end, and don’t seek to revel in the means. What do you care about? Who do you want to help? Does a startup make meeting your goals …
These are my notes from Vladimir Keleshev's talk entitled "Python Best Practice Patterns", given on May 2, 2013 at the Python Meetup in Denmark. The original video is here (about 38 minutes long).
Note: Some of the code examples have been has been modified from the original presentation based on …
A professional reinvents himself…the professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey. Steven Pressfield, The War of Art