Statistics – Standard Deviation

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 extremes. Other measures are used to tell us about the variation within a population. One frequently used measure of variation is standard deviation.
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Introduction to NumPy

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 (Series and DataFrames), called NumPy. This post goes over some of what can be done with NumPy.
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ag-Grid String Comparator

I’ve been using ag-Grid and it’s pretty great for representing tabular data. The goal of the ag-Grid team is to create “The Best HTML5 Grid in the World”, and I think they’ve done that. Anyways, just by setting an option in the the grid’s configuration (i.e. gridOptions.enableSorting = true) you can make a grid (a.k.a. table) sorted by a column’s value. But the default sorting on strings is not quite what one would want – at least in many cases. For example, when there’s a space between words in a string or the capitalization is mixed the sorting doesn’t appear to be lexicographical.
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Git Ignore Current Changes in a File

Recently, I was working on a Web project where the HTML page referenced external JavaScript files – a quite common scenario. The development/testing and the live version of the project were on the same server and used the same socket for hosting. This was on an enterprise platform where these constrains were operationally fixed. So, the HTML page where I was doing the development work pointed to different JavaScript files (development JS files) than did the HTML file located in live repo (the live JS files). This difference – the location of the external JS files (development vs. live) – would always exist between the two repos, and I wanted to ignore this difference so I can use the two git repos to work on and maintain the project.
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