Narratives & Notions

Why? Google sheets are widely used due to various reasons such as being free of charge and allowing multiple people to work on them. But if you want to document each move for your future self and/or for your colleagues, connecting to Google sheets via Python can be a good idea. The benefit of having…

Plotly is an interactive data visualization library in Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, Julia, Arduino, and REST. I prepared a short notebook in Kaggle to show its usage and how the output looks like. I used the dataset indicating Covid19 World Vaccination Progress from Gabriel Preda. Initially, I created a static scatter plot with seaborn so…

Today I will talk about Color Brewer, my most-used (free!) color selection tool. Depending on your audience and topic, there are a few things to be considered when selecting the colors for your figure. For example, if you are going to present your figures to the public, then it is important to use color-blind-friendly colors….

Hi there! It is been a while since my last post, and I wanted to come back with a fun little project! I have an instagram account where I mostly post food photos, with few followers, and I have the data of my posts reach, impressions, profile visits, likes, and comments. To create a common…

The last time I wrote about data analysis, I shared how to navigate through the data and how to do the basic descriptive analysis. Now, high time to start diving in, and do some analysis such as correlation! For that we will install SciPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib libraries. I will talk about three different correlation…

It has been a while since I wrote my last blog, and here I brought you news from a recent event, Django girls workshop! (For those who are wondering what Django is,  it is a Python web framework.)  Django girls is an excellent initiation for women who are interested in IT. They organize free workshops…

A few days ago, I attended the Python Pizza event for the first time. It was in Berlin, a city very much reminding me of Ankara. And a small tip for people going to Berlin via train from Prague on Friday: reserve a seat. We had to stand up half of our journey! Anyways, after…

Hello there, This week, we will warm ourselves up for data analysis!! I will be using the same data frame that I used in the previous blog post. Let us first see the descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, min and max values. To do that: Sometimes, when we prepare our data for the…

Here comes another challenge for this week. So, you are organizing an event, and some people will pay the costs via bank transfer. Therefore, you need to send email attachments (including banking details) to only those people who want to use that payment option. Let us also assume that you gave them IDs to recognize…