Several years ago, I read David Sanger's book, "The Perfect Weapon," about cyber attacks – that is, attacks against the Internet and computer infrastructure. The book was equally enlightening and terrifying, and I highly recommend it. The main thesis was that causing destruction and mayhem no longer
This week, we looked at data from a number of major stock-market indexes. The goals were not just to find out if the major drops we saw earlier this week were unusually large in historical terms, but also to see what connections we can find across the various indexes. Data
It was big news on Monday: Major stock indexes in nearly every market around the world declined. Why? People had all sorts of speculation. A number of them had to do with worries about the health of the US economy, which has outperformed every other major country in both growth
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As you might know, Bamboo Weekly is just one of the many Python and Pandas learning materials I produce. I also have a large set of online courses for Python, Pandas, and Git, and a free, weekly newsletter about Python ("Better Developers") that goes out to about 30,
This week, I thought it would be interesting to find out just how old American politicians are. President Joe Biden (81) announced that he won't run for re-election, but Donald Trump (78) isn't a youngster, either. Nancy Pelosi (84) seems to have been central to coordinating
The bombshell news over the last few days was, of course, the withdrawal of President Joe Biden from the election this November, and the swift pivot to Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive nominee. Biden's age had long worried voters, but his debate performance last month put
Thanks to everyone who came to this month's office hours! I'm enclosing the video here, as well as the Jupyter notebook I used for coding. See you next month!
Have questions about Pandas? It's time for our monthly office hours, where you can ask anything you want — about Bamboo Weekly problems, or anything else Pandas related. I'll try my best to answer! We'll be meeting at 7:15 p.m. Israel time, tomorrow
This week, we looked at refugees – how many there are, where they come from, and where they go. This was inspired by a conversation I had with a taxi driver on my way to the Prague airport, who expressed mostly positive feelings about what the Czech Republic had done for