Python’s unicodedata module provides access to the Unicode Character Database (UCD) which defines character properties for all Unicode characters. ¹

unicodedata Functions include lookup to lookup a character by name. If you know the regional indicator symbols for a country code, for example IE …

As noted in the post on markdown, footnotes are now supported in Markdown fields. Footnotes allow you to reference relevant information without disrupting the flow. Footnotes are added using [^fn] with the number of the footnote, for example [^fn1]. ¹

In this post I look at how to style the …

The <iframe> tag specifies an inline frame and is used to embed another document within the current HTML document.

The Markdown elements outlined in John Gruber’s design document is outlined here¹ at https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/.

Extended Syntax² for advanced features that build on the basic Markdown syntax

I am reading Hands on Machine Learning with Scikit-learn, Keras and TensorFlow by Aurélion Géron and will make a few notes here for reference.

Chapter 2 works through an example project from end to end using the California Housing dataset from the StatLib repository. The dataset is based on data …

Some notes on various Python libraries used for data analytics.

A Dash app is a Flask app so the same deployment options apply.

MySQL is a Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) and is a component on the LAMP application stack. (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP/Python/Perl) MySQL is a very popular Oracle backed open-sourced Structured Query Language. It is also implemented by various database-driven applications.

There are different types of data science including descriptive analytics, predictiive analytics and prescription analytics.