Collaborative edit for Jupyter Notebooks

TL, DR Jupyter Notebooks are one of the most common tools for data scientist to explore new challenges and prototype solutions. In most cases, this process is a collaborative one. And since a couple of years, it would be quite common that you will interact with your co-workers remotely. Collaborative edit capabilities for Jupyter Notebooks… Continue reading Collaborative edit for Jupyter Notebooks

Collaborative Latex editing with Overleaf

TL, DR Latex is the “gold standard” for writing academic papers. And it will be quite common to have co-authors in your research. How can you be collaborative and work simultaneously to edit the same paper using Latex, keeping consistency and immediately noticing somebody else’s updates? Overleaf is the ultimate answer. You can create a… Continue reading Collaborative Latex editing with Overleaf

Import NA strings in Pandas the right way

TL, DR Pandas has great parsing tools to let you import data from multiple file formats (CSV, Excel, etc…). Sometimes in your data you have “NA” strings that are valid values. However, Pandas default will consider those strings as markers for missing values. Below some option you can use to prevent this default and import… Continue reading Import NA strings in Pandas the right way

Access host resources from a Docker container

TL, DR Docker is a great platform for development and deployment of modern applications. Sometimes you need your Docker container to access some resource published on the host. This guide explains how to access host resources from a Docker container in Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Docker containers In today’s cloud environment Docker is one of… Continue reading Access host resources from a Docker container