Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become ...

In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management ...

Each tool serves different needs, from simplicity to speed and SQL-based analytics workflows. Performance differences matter most, with Polars and DuckDB outperforming Pandas on large datasets. Modern ...

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end cognitive complexity analysis workflow using complexipy. We start by measuring complexity directly from raw code strings, then scale the same analysis to ...

HANDS ON For all the buzz surrounding them, AI agents are simply another form of automation that can perform tasks using the tools you've provided. Think of them as smart macros that make decisions ...

A software engineer and book author with many years of experience, I have dedicated my career to the art of automation. A software engineer and book author with many years of experience, I have ...

It is now simpler to add custom functionality to Pandas DataFrames and Series. Import this package. Write a simple python function. Register the function using one of the following decorators. Pandas ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Investors choose funds in the hopes that they align with their risk preferences and long-term goals. If funds drift from their stated intentions, investors could end up lost at sea. Funds need to ...