Monthly Archives: December 2013

Big Data Introduction

Happy Holidays! For the next few posts, I will be talking about using some tools/tricks on big data. I think that the term 'big data' gets thrown around a bit much these days. The more common definition of big data … Continue reading

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The Simplicity of Python (an example)

Previously, I posted on how to forward fill missing data in columns of data in R and Excel. I just figured out how to do this in Python, and was blown away. Ready? data = Series(['A','B','C','D','E','F'], index = [0,2,5,7,12,14]) data.reindex(range(14),method='ffill') … Continue reading

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