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…
Python and Bash Diaries
Warming up for data analysis
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…
Sending personalized mass emails with different attachments
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…
Sending personalized mass emails with attachment
I thought that I was done sending mass emails. Ups, not really. This time, it was necessary to add attachments. No problem, I said to my colleague:) Yes, you can enjoy the moments of being problem solver:) First, I saved the attachment to the same directory with my .py file, .csv file (for personalized messages),…
Exploring your data with Python
In most areas of science, we need to do data analysis, and evolutionary psychology was no exception to that. A decade ago!, I was taught to use SPSS for data analysis. Recently, I see that R has been the rising star among psychologists. In this blog, I will try to show how to explore your…
Sending personalized mass emails with Python
Have you ever been in a position where you have to send 100 emails to 100 different people? I recently have. I also had to address the recipients in the email personally: “Dear Anton/Alex/etc.” High time to use Python and automatize my work! I will walk you through this short adventure, but I may not…
How I met with Python
2015 is the year that I first heard about Python (and I still, 99% of the time, misspell it as Pyhton). I was an MS student in cognitive science, and I had to take the course “Logic and Programming (Python)”. Our class included two types of students: the ones from social/natural sciences, and the engineers….