OS 101
Kernel A kernel is the core software application of the operating system. It is generally not intended to be interacted with from a user-level perspective. Some »
Misconceptions of ASCII and Unicode
Myth: ASCII characters take up one byte ASCII represented characters using numbers between 32 and 127. This accounted for characters used in the English language (lowercase »
NumPy vs. Pandas, and other flavors (Dask, Modin, Ray)
NumPy NumPy is a Python library for numerical computing that offers multi-dimensional arrays and indices as data structures and additional high-level math utilities. ndarray The unique »
DataFrames (a software engineer's perspective)
What is a DataFrame? A DataFrame is a special data structure used primarily by data scientists and machine learning algorithms. It contains row and column data »
Comparison Charts of File Storage Formats
Big Data Encodings These encodings are often used with HDFS or some other distributed file system. Since the data can be as large as terabytes or »