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wrighters.io

Personal blog · wrighters.iodataprogramming

wrighters.io is a personal blog at wrighters.io about data and programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts about pairing Jupyter notebooks with Markdown versions via jupytext so the two stay in sync. The commenter cites it as a reference for that workflow.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Useful articles on Python, pandas, jupyter, matplotlib, numpy and other common data analysis libraries, with some applications in finance.

What Hacker News says?

  1. In addition to this, you can keep a dual markdown version that uses a much more human-readable syntax and preserves both code and markdown sections of the Jupyter notebook. This is also via jupytext. In both jupyterlab and jupyter you can pair the two versions (something like what is discussed here: https://www.wrighters.io/jupytext-notebooks-as-markdown-or-p... ) and they will stay in sync automatically.

    Comment linking /jupytext-notebooks-as-markdown-or-python/

    on “Ask HN: Are there any good Diff tools for Jupyter Notebooks?”
  2. Submitted Don't append rows to a pandas DataFrame – wrighters.io as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Analyzing intraday and overnight stock returns with pandas – wrighters.io as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Parameterizing and automating Jupyter notebooks with papermill as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Profiling Python code with py-spy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Views, copies and that annoying SettingWithCopyWarning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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