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    Thread: Parsing "aTimeLogger" Android app data to graphs using pandas
Post: RE: Parsing "aTimeLogger" Android app data to grap...

Toq uote myself from earlier: (May-12-2024, 09:15 AM)Drone4four Wrote: # Create a DataFrame python = bulk_df[bulk_df["Activity"] == "Python"] #.rolling(window=90).mean() # Plotting python.plot(x='...
Drone4four Data Science 2 244 May-12-2024, 07:55 PM
    Thread: Parsing "aTimeLogger" Android app data to graphs using pandas
Post: Parsing "aTimeLogger" Android app data to graphs u...

Greetings Pythonistas! I’ve got a data set in CSV format which spans from July 2019 up to December 2023. It is a collection of productivity intervals that I’ve meticulously recorded while doing socia...
Drone4four Data Science 2 244 May-12-2024, 09:15 AM
    Thread: Visualizing musician chart performance and ranking using pandas and matplotlib
Post: RE: Visualizing musician chart performance and ran...

Eureka! Thank you @snippsat! That makes total sense. I should have known. There are a few ways to parse date and time objects when they are in their original string format. Here is what I ended up us...
Drone4four Data Science 5 507 May-12-2024, 02:23 AM
    Thread: Visualizing musician chart performance and ranking using pandas and matplotlib
Post: RE: Visualizing musician chart performance and ran...

Thank you @Pedroski55 for your reply! Although I’m not sure I understand your question. If you are suggesting that I am missing the hot_billboard = pd.read_csv('data/billboard_charts.csv') line, the...
Drone4four Data Science 5 507 May-05-2024, 05:35 AM
    Thread: Visualizing musician chart performance and ranking using pandas and matplotlib
Post: Visualizing musician chart performance and ranking...

I am enrolled in a not for school credit Udemy course by Colt Steele on data anlaysis in Python using common data visulization modules like pandas, matplotlib, plotly, and seaborn. The task I am work...
Drone4four Data Science 5 507 Apr-28-2024, 05:26 PM
    Thread: Scratch pad for writing forum threads / posts with markdown/markup
Post: Scratch pad for writing forum threads / posts with...

What do you people use for drafting long forum threads / posts / Stack Overflow questions? For years I’ve been using Google Docs which I realize is not best practice. Punctuation like quotes wreck my...
Drone4four Bar 2 565 Feb-25-2024, 07:32 PM
    Thread: Parsing and summing time deltas (duration) onto bar + pie charts using pandas - - DRY
Post: RE: Parsing and summing time deltas (duration) ont...

Hi! Thank you for your reply, @deanhystad. Your snippet works well. Based on your feedback, plus based on a subsequent back and forth conversation I had with ChatGPT, here is the final product I settl...
Drone4four Data Science 2 662 Feb-10-2024, 06:04 PM
    Thread: Parsing and summing time deltas (duration) onto bar + pie charts using pandas - - DRY
Post: Parsing and summing time deltas (duration) onto ba...

Greetings Pythonistas! I am taking Colt Steele’s Udemy course on data analysis where he teaches his students how to parse .CSV files using pandas, plotly, matplotlib, and seaborn. I’ve watched over...
Drone4four Data Science 2 662 Feb-04-2024, 11:41 AM
    Thread: Basic binary search algorithm - using a while loop
Post: Basic binary search algorithm - using a while loop

I’m learning algorithms using Python. My latest challenge laid out by the instructor in my highly sophisticated non-accredited Udemy course content I am watching is to write a basic binary search algo...
Drone4four General Coding Help 1 438 Jan-22-2024, 12:50 PM
    Thread: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed string representation
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(Jan-08-2024, 04:39 PM)deanhystad Wrote: Try list_obj = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] and item = 0 It seems to run for me as expected: Quote:$ python Python 3.11.6 (main, Nov 14 2023, 09:36:21) [GCC ...
Drone4four General Coding Help 10 1,115 Jan-08-2024, 05:09 PM
    Thread: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed string representation
Post: RE: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed ...

Eureka! I got it working. Using enumerate is the technique I need. This filled the gap. Here is my latest script: class LinearSearch: # This class accepts a list as input def __init__(self, ...
Drone4four General Coding Help 10 1,115 Jan-08-2024, 04:31 PM
    Thread: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed string representation
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Hi @deanhystad, Thank you for your feedback. (Jan-08-2024, 03:28 PM)deanhystad Wrote: What is the purpose of this class? Use in to find out if an object is in an iterable, or list.index() to find...
Drone4four General Coding Help 10 1,115 Jan-08-2024, 04:10 PM
    Thread: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed string representation
Post: RE: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed ...

Hi @EdwardMatthew. Thank you for your reply! You said: (Jan-08-2024, 01:55 PM)EdwardMatthew Wrote: If you are still facing the issue you should review your linear search algorithm's logic. I identi...
Drone4four General Coding Help 10 1,115 Jan-08-2024, 03:11 PM
    Thread: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed string representation
Post: Writing a Linear Search algorithm - malformed stri...

I am writing a linear search algorithm. I've got the main logic under my belt but it's the string representation that I haven't got right. Below is my script and output in my REPL. When I try to searc...
Drone4four General Coding Help 10 1,115 Jan-08-2024, 01:28 PM
    Thread: Building a DoublyLinkedList in Python - - append method
Post: RE: Building a DoublyLinkedList in Python - - appe...

Hi @deanystad. Thank you for your reply. You are right that I wasn't calling my custom append() method properly in my shell. Not sure how I let that slip through my fingers.
Drone4four General Coding Help 2 474 Jan-08-2024, 01:27 PM
    Thread: Building a DoublyLinkedList in Python - - append method
Post: Building a DoublyLinkedList in Python - - append m...

Greetings Pythonistas! I am learning how to write basic algorithms in Python but am taking an unusual approach. I am taking a Udemy course which teaches algorithms in JavaScript. What I do is watch t...
Drone4four General Coding Help 2 474 Jan-08-2024, 10:42 AM
    Thread: "DiceGame" OOP project
Post: RE: "DiceGame" OOP project

Hi @snippsat. Thanks for your reply. I am humbled that the amount of research and effort I put into my forum thread that an experienced Python verteran like yourself found my line of questioning worth...
Drone4four Homework 6 1,063 Nov-15-2023, 09:24 PM
    Thread: "DiceGame" OOP project
Post: "DiceGame" OOP project

I’m learning OOP by taking Estefania Cassingena Navone's Udemy course titled: "Python OOP - Object Oriented Programming for Beginners". The first major project exercise is a rudimentary dice rolling g...
Drone4four Homework 6 1,063 Nov-12-2023, 01:45 PM
    Thread: Best all-Python workflow to learning basic math (eventually Data Science)
Post: Best all-Python workflow to learning basic math (e...

I’m learning basic math skills with the intention of eventually studying data science. I’m enrolled in a few courses on Udemy that I got at a discount during flash sales this past holiday season. Whil...
Drone4four News and Discussions 0 1,096 Jan-08-2023, 10:55 PM
    Thread: Setting up and integrating Jupyter Notebook development environment with VSC
Post: RE: Setting up and integrating Jupyter Notebook de...

After much wrangling with official and third party VSC extenions on the marketplace, I discovered an answer that required some very straight forward 'out of the box' problem solving: I installed the V...
Drone4four Data Science 3 1,991 Sep-12-2022, 09:18 AM

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