You can download the slides of the Finxter Remote Freelancing Report here as a high-resolution PDF: Study Findings Observation 1: Paradigm shift towards remote + freelancing Observation 2: Efficiency gains through remote workΒ Observation 3: Efficiency gains through freelancing ΒThesis: mega productivity surge ahead in the next decadeΒ Observation 1: The Paradigm Shift Towards Remote … Read more
Hey Finxters! It is time for another cheat sheet for Python using Matplotlib! For the curious, Matplotlib is a Python 2D plotting library which produces figures in hard-copy formats and interactive environments across platforms. These cheat sheets are going to become very handy when you need to write a program for a company and show … Read more
Summing up numbers is one of those repetitive tasks you need to do over and over again in your practical code projects. To help you accomplish this task in a concise, readable, and efficient way, Python’s creators have added the built-in sum() function. It sums over all elements in a Python list—or any other iterable … Read more
This article shows how to solve math equations and expressions symbolically, in Python. Thanks to the Sympy library, this turns out to be an extremely easy task. However, as you will see in the following examples, the number of tools and functions provided by this library is huge. Thanks to all its features, Sympy represents … Read more
Hey Finxters! Among the many daily tasks you can achieve with Python, there is one Siri-like task that comes quite handy: managing your emails in a programmatic way. Of course, many emails need your human understanding to be processed properly, and this article is not about implementing a neural network to fine-tune every single email … Read more
In computer science, an array data structure consists of a collection of elements—usually of the same type such as integer or string. Each element is identified by an array index. Arrays are designed to allow extremely efficient access of individual elements by index: runtime complexity is constant with growing array size! The reason is that … Read more
Problem Formulation: Given a string of letters and numbers. How to split the string into substrings of either letters or numbers by using the boundary between a letter and a number and vice versa. Examples: Have a look at the following examples of what you want to accomplish. ‘111A222B333C’ —> [‘111’, ‘A’, ‘222’, ‘B’, ‘333’, … Read more
NumPy is a popular Python library for data science focusing on arrays, vectors, and matrices. It’s at the core of data science and machine learning in Python. In today’s article, you’ll going to master NumPy’s impressive average() function that will be a loyal friend to you when fighting your upcoming data science battles. average(a, axis=None, … Read more
Hey Finxters! It is time for another top 10 cheat sheets! Today, we are going to take a look at TKinter in Python! For those of you who do not know, Tkinter is a GUI widget system for Python. I will be giving you the best cheat sheets I am able to find online. That … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a number of functions f1, f2, …, fn. How to chain the function calls so that the output of the i-th function is used as input for the (i+1)-th function? f1() —> output f1() is input of f2() —> output f2() is input of f3() … —> … is input of fn() … Read more
Numpy is a popular Python library for data science focusing on arrays, vectors, and matrices. An important application of arrays, matrices, and vectors is the dot product. This article will teach you everything you need to know to get started! The dot product behaves differently for different input arrays. Dot Product 1D array and Scalar … Read more
The Python ord() function takes a character (=string of length one) as an input and returns the Unicode number of this character. For example, ord(‘a’) returns the Unicode number 97. The inverse function of ord() is the chr() function, so chr(ord(‘a’)) returns the original character ‘a’. Here are three examples of passed Unicode characters transformed … Read more