Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become ...

Each tool serves different needs, from simplicity to speed and SQL-based analytics workflows. Performance differences matter most, with Polars and DuckDB outperforming Pandas on large datasets. Modern ...

DuckDB is an embedded database, similar to SQLite, but designed for OLAP-style analytics. It is crazy fast and allows you to read and write data stored in CSV, JSON, and Parquet files directly, ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

Information is gold. But to get that information, you need to process and refine raw data. But what happens when the data you need isn’t presented to you in a CSV or an API? And you have to source it ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...