Misconceptions of ASCII and Unicode
Myth: ASCII characters take up one byte ASCII represented characters using numbers between 32 and 127. This accounted for characters used in the English language (lowercase »
NumPy vs. Pandas, and other flavors (Dask, Modin, Ray)
NumPy NumPy is a Python library for numerical computing that offers multi-dimensional arrays and indices as data structures and additional high-level math utilities. ndarray The unique »
DataFrames (a software engineer's perspective)
What is a DataFrame? A DataFrame is a special data structure used primarily by data scientists and machine learning algorithms. It contains row and column data »
Comparison Charts of File Storage Formats
Big Data Encodings These encodings are often used with HDFS or some other distributed file system. Since the data can be as large as terabytes or »
Traditional Message Queues vs. Log-based Message Brokers
Traditional Message Queues Traditional message queues are based off of the JMS / AMQP standard. These message brokers focus on a pub/sub model where publishers write »