I have a project I’m working to to gather and analyse economic data. To get the daily gold spot price, I’m going to use goldpricez.com. They provide a simple RESTful API serves up gold price data. You can check them out at the following link. Gold Rates by
It turns out that normally distributed values are quite important in statistics. Not only because the pattern is remarkably common, the central limit theorem enables statisticians to infer conclusions about how a given treatment will affect a given population. To make such inferences, we need to learn about the Probability Density Function and a useful shortcut: […]
I recently started a group on Meetup.com for folks interested in computer programming. This was my first time doing so, and I had not worked out where the group would actually meet up. The first step to fining a meet-up spot was to look at the membership role and find where the individuals were located. I […]
Most people are familiar with the concepts of the mean, median, and mode. They are measures of the central tendency of a value that has measured in a given population. They tell us, in different ways, about the value of an attribute at the heart of the population, rather than at the positive or negative […]
Lately, I’ve been studying statistics and data analysis. I have beforehand knowledge of the Python programming language, so when looking at the two most widely used programming tools applied in this domain, Pandas and R, I chose Pandas – a software library for Python. Pandas uses another library in the construction of it’s data structures […]
What is Pandas? Pandas is a free software (software libre) data analysis library for the Python programming language. The library provides analysts and programmers data structures optimized for working with large data sets, and methods for examining and manipulating that data. It uses another free software library, NumPy, for underlying data structures, and Pyplot to generate plots […]