https://cherla.org/tags/python/Recent content in Python on Srikanth CherlaHugoen-USWed, 27 May 2026 11:22:30 +0200https://cherla.org/posts/2019/06/getting-started-with-python-pandas/Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://cherla.org/posts/2019/06/getting-started-with-python-pandas/<p>I resisted pandas for a long time, then found myself spending way too much time writing data processing routines from scratch on a recommender systems project. It reminded me of when I used to manually compute neural network gradients before discovering Theano.</p> <p>Two resources that worked well for getting up to speed quickly:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/learn">Kaggle Learn micro-courses</a></strong> — well-organised, beginner-friendly, and the pandas course pairs nicely with their visualisation and embedding courses.</p>