This past month has involved a lot of coding in Anaconda scripts and I genuinely liked the coding part. I had to juggle through all three major platforms - Windows, Ubuntu and MacOS
Trust me, without the wonderful Anaconda ( no, not the Snake silly;D ) I wouldn't have been able to do anything at all.
I relied on Anaconda for Scraping, Visualization and dealing with various Data formats. In the process I realized over and over again that not being able to deal with Pandas and HDF5 formats was a huge hindrance for making progress, actually I am barely at peace with CSV files leave alone the complex ones.
But, no worries. Anaconda/Jupyter/SageMaths are things which I would love to Master anyway! I obviously see myself using them for a long time in Future.
For visualization part, I focused on Bokeh but soon realized that the kind of skill level that the task asked for, was still a few miles away so I explored another wonderful option which is Plotly. I kinda experimented a lot with Plotly and somehow had the Visualizations working on a real-time basis. I see a long road ahead though and I find the journey exiting.
Curious person that I am, I tried to use Plotly with Julia as well but as Julia recently hit 0.4 versions, I think it affected the compatibility between the two. No, surprize there though - Julia is moving fast and is constantly evolving;P
However, it would have made things a lot easier for me - as Pandas don't have a counterpart in Julia and any CSV file would have done just fine in this case.... Well, moving on)
Another thing, I look forward to in coming months is JavaScript - not only the Visualization part but the language itself. I see that language everywhere and of course, there was a lot of HTML and CSS code too, so I think by the end of this learning curve I'll start seeing the Rainbow in this Digital World.
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