Big Data is a buzz word nowadays. But when is data “big data”? Three Vs of Big Data Big data spans three dimensions Volume Velocity Variety Volume Everything which doesn’t fit on your local hard drive anymore can be considered big. Think >10 TeraByte Velocity The more real time your data becomes the more you…
What is Kudo? Kudo is Greek for fame or honor. The idea behind Kudo Cards is to say “Thank You” in a meaningful way. By taking the time to specify and write down what you are actually grateful for. Variations As an alternative to just give a card to a co-worker, you can enhance the…
In Regular Expressions Demystified I developed a little python package and distributed it via PyPi. I wanted to publish my second self-written package as well, but coming back after almost a year, some things have changed in the world of PyPi, i.e. the old tutorials aren’t working anymore. So I wrote this article to bring…
I became a bar camp afficionade after I attendend the Software Engineering Camp in 2016 2025 SpaceUp Camp Würzburg – klein aber fein! Seneca SWEC 2024 Seneca Barcamp Software Engineering Camp 2024 2023 BarCamp Regensburg Seneca BarCamp Nürnberg Digital Festival Creator’s BarCamp 2022 Meetup Let’s talk about Web Security! BarCamp Regensburg 2022 DevOps Camp 2022…
My Experiments so far Kudo Cards I gave Kudo Cards to my colleague Michi M. for preparing a nice presentation my colleague Bastian B. for driving an extra tour my colleague Jannik for voluntarily organizing a team event our HR department for introducing a new tool for our application process my CEO for giving me…
The Barcamp Regensburg 2018 took place on October 13th and 14th at Techbase Regensburg. Due to my visit to DevOps Camp Nuremberg on Saturday, I could only visit this barcamp on Sunday. Sessions I participated in a session about Dress Code at work, learned about meditation and talked about the Bavarian Landtagswahl. I also held…
Overview matplotlib is the workhorse of data science visualization. The module pyplot gives us MATLAB like plots. You can install it via pip install matplotlib The most basic plot is done with the “plot”-function. It looks like this: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3]) plt.show() The plot function takes…
When you area already familiar with the basic plot from the introduction to matplotlib here is another type of plot used in data science. A very basic visualization is the scatter plot: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt N = 100 x = np.random.rand(N) y = np.random.rand(N) plt.scatter(x, y) plt.show() Color of the…
What is Feature Scaling? Feature Scaling is an important pre-processing step for some machine learning algorithms. Imagine you have three friends of whom you know the individual weight and height. You would like to deduce Christian’s t-shirt size from David’s and Julia’s by looking at the height and weight. Name Height in m Weight in…
