Episode 46: C for Python Developers and Data Visualization With Dash

The Real Python Podcast

Feb 05, 2021 44m

Are you interested in building interactive dashboards with Python? How about a project that takes a flat data file all the way to a web-hosted interactive dashboard? This week on the show, David Amos is back, and he’s brought another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

Along with the Real Python article about data visualizations using Dash, David covers an article designed to help Python developers understand the fundamentals of C. We discuss a couple of articles about Excel and using Python with Microsoft Office.

We also cover several other articles and projects from the Python community including, out-of-memory crashes in Python, updating all packages with pip-review, data science notebooks for teams, and a command-line tool for looking up colors, shades, and palettes.

Course Spotlight: Command Line Interfaces in Python

Command line arguments are the key to converting your programs into useful and enticing tools that are ready to be used in the terminal of your operating system. In this course, you’ll learn their origins, standards, and basics, and how to implement them in your program.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:36 – CPython Internals Book
00:03:18 – C for Python Programmers
00:06:11 – Dying, Fast and Slow: Out-Of-Memory Crashes in Python
00:13:29 – Automating Excel File Creation and Distribution With Pandas And Outlook
00:18:33 – Update All Packages With pip-review
00:23:49 – Video Course Spotlight
00:25:04 – Ditching Excel for Python: Lessons Learned From a Legacy Industry
00:30:20 – Develop Data Visualization Interfaces in Python With Dash
00:38:11 – Deepnote: Data Science Notebook for Teams
00:41:25 – colorpedia: Command-Line Tool for Looking Up Colors, Shades and Palettes
00:43:45 – Thanks and goodbye

Show Links:

C for Python Programmers – In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of the C language, which is used in the source code for CPython, the most popular Python implementation. Learning C is important for Python programmers interested in contributing to CPython.

Dying, Fast and Slow: Out-Of-Memory Crashes in Python – Learn about the different ways that memory issues can manifest in your Python programs, and how you can debug and fix them.

Automating Excel File Creation and Distribution With Pandas And Outlook – See how a little bit of Python can go a long way to automating manual processes and save businesses valuable time.

Update All Packages With pip-review – Keeping track of Python dependencies and updates can be tricky. The pip-review tool automates a lot of this process in a convenient command-line interface.

Ditching Excel for Python: Lessons Learned From a Legacy Industry – Learn how Python is revolutionizing an industry that’s notoriously resistant to change and fraught with every programmer’s most dreaded tool: Excel spreadsheets.

Develop Data Visualization Interfaces in Python With Dash – Learn how to build a dashboard using Python and Dash. Dash is a framework for building data visualization interfaces. It helps data scientists build fully interactive web applications quickly.

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Level Up Your Python Skills With These Courses:

Using Jupyter Notebooks

A Guide to Excel Spreadsheets in Python With openpyxl

Editing Excel Spreadsheets in Python With openpyxl

Command Line Interfaces in Python

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