User stories or scenarios are the suggested and preferred way for most agile development teams to capture software features in bite-sized morsels. It helps to continuously focus on the feature from end-user perspective (targets user-experience, persona) and the situation (i.e. the need for that feature) and expected behavior (i.e. what the user is trying to […]
Category: Education
Analyses of Critical Words & Speeches!
In one of my earlier blogs, I shared the techniques and code to create Word Cloud using Python and Excel together in this article: Word Cloud III – Python & Excel Together Today, building on that, I’ll analyze some of the most historic speeches and/or documents that every kid should read and even memorize part […]
vCards to/from CSV/Excel (and more)
vCards. What are they? Here’s a blurb from wikipedia:vCard, also known as VCF, is a file format standard for electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages but can be exchanged in other ways, such as Multimedia Messaging Service, on the World Wide Web, instant messaging or through QR code. They can contain […]
Using Directions & Travel APIs With Excel, Python. 2/2
This is the second part of the getting directions and travel info using Bing Maps. The first part shows how to do it in Python (check it out here), and in this part, I’ll share some tips on how to get the same info from within Excel without writing any VBA code! To get the […]
Using Directions & Travel APIs with Excel, Python. 1/2
In this blog, I’ll share tips on how to consume RESTful APIs for maps. Specifically, getting a location point info, getting distance and travel times between two points, and even turn-by-turn driving directions. With the techniques, we can also get walking and transit mode of travel info. I’ll be leveraging Bing Maps APIs as they’re […]
Music Mixing with Python
Recently, I accidently encountered a new online service called EarSketch for music creation and mixing using Python. I had to of course check it out in more detail and was very impressed with the simplicity and effort put into the overall UI, API, and technical documentation. They are definitely worth checking out! Kudos to EarSketch […]
Putting together our Presidents (Infographic in Excel)
In several of my earlier blogs, I demonstrated working with raw data from multiple sources to generate visual and statistical analysis. You can find them in the following posts: Let’s Play With All The Presidents (Excel)-Part1 Let’s Play With All The Presidents (Excel)-Part2 Getting To Know Our Presidents In this blog, I share the combined […]
Be the right kind of ‘Mean’
No, I’m not talking about stingy, spiteful kind…rather mathematical mean: arithmetic and statistical means to be exact. In fact, a handful of mean functions and applications. In most common situations, when we say ‘Mean’ even the statisticians mean the Average…or the arithmetic mean we all know since early childhood. We continue use it because while […]
Predicting missing/unknown information
Analysts often need to fill in the blanks in order to make longer-term decisions, or just to model different scenarios by making credulous predictions. In this post, I share just one of such scenarios and demonstrate how to make predictions using both statistical formulas manually and Excel’s feature. Lastly, we’ll see the difference between the […]
A Very Simple Etch A Sketch Type Program (Python)
Here’s a fun, little application using Python. In this post, I demonstrate drawing lines using just the arrow keys on the keyboard (up/down/left/right). The drawing direction is determined by the arrow key pressed as shown in the clip below: With each keypress a line is drawn in the direction of the arrow head, which is […]