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Todd Birchard

Former product manager turned data engineer with ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning concepts known as ‘best practices’. Completely normal and emotionally stable.

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Drexel University

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Software Engineer at Fanduel

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Serving Assets via CDN with Google Cloud

Serving Assets via CDN with Google Cloud

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Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

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Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

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Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

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Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

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Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

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Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

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Connecting Pandas to a Database with SQLAlchemy

Connecting Pandas to a Database with SQLAlchemy

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Scraping Data on the Web with BeautifulSoup

Scraping Data on the Web with BeautifulSoup

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Understanding GatsbyJS: Create Your First Gatsby Theme

Understanding GatsbyJS: Create Your First Gatsby Theme

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Building Java Projects with Gradle

Building Java Projects with Gradle

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Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

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Create Your First Golang App

Create Your First Golang App

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Configuring Your Flask App

Configuring Your Flask App

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Organizing Flask Apps with Blueprints

Organizing Flask Apps with Blueprints

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Integrate Plotly Dash Into Your Flask App

Integrate Plotly Dash Into Your Flask App

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Creating Interactive Views in Django

Creating Interactive Views in Django

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Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON

Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON

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Compiling and Serving Frontend Assets in Flask

Compiling and Serving Frontend Assets in Flask

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The Art of Routing in Flask

The Art of Routing in Flask

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Handle User Accounts & Authentication in Flask with Flask-Login

Handle User Accounts & Authentication in Flask with Flask-Login

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Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

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Psycopg2: PostgreSQL & Python (the Old Fashioned Way)

Psycopg2: PostgreSQL & Python (the Old Fashioned Way)

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Using Redis In-Memory Storage for your Python Applications

Using Redis In-Memory Storage for your Python Applications

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Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

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SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

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Getting Started with Django

Getting Started with Django

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Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu

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Simplify BigQuery ETL jobs using SQLAlchemy

Simplify BigQuery ETL jobs using SQLAlchemy

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Comparing Rows Between Two Pandas DataFrames

Comparing Rows Between Two Pandas DataFrames

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Using Amazon Redshift as your Data Warehouse

Using Amazon Redshift as your Data Warehouse

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Define Relationships Between SQLAlchemy Data Models

Define Relationships Between SQLAlchemy Data Models

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Managing Relationships in SQLAlchemy Data Models

Managing Relationships in SQLAlchemy Data Models

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Manage Files in Google Cloud Storage With Python

Manage Files in Google Cloud Storage With Python

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Manage Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

Manage Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

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Using Hierarchical Indexes With Pandas

Using Hierarchical Indexes With Pandas

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Managing Session Data with Flask-Session & Redis

Managing Session Data with Flask-Session & Redis

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Reshaping Pandas DataFrames

Reshaping Pandas DataFrames

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Structured Streaming in PySpark

Structured Streaming in PySpark

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Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

Becoming Familiar with Apache Kafka and Message Queues

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Plotting Data With Seaborn and Pandas

Plotting Data With Seaborn and Pandas

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Upgrading to JupyterLab on Ubuntu

Upgrading to JupyterLab on Ubuntu

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Using Flask-Login to Handle User Accounts

Using Flask-Login to Handle User Accounts

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Running Jupyter Notebooks on a Ubuntu Server

Running Jupyter Notebooks on a Ubuntu Server

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Drawing Mapbox Route Objects via the Directions API

Drawing Mapbox Route Objects via the Directions API

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Welcome to SQL 3: Building Relationships and Combining Data Sets

Welcome to SQL 3: Building Relationships and Combining Data Sets

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Welcome to SQL 2: Working With Data Values

Welcome to SQL 2: Working With Data Values

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Making API Requests with NodeJS

Making API Requests with NodeJS

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Welcome to SQL: Modifying Databases and Tables

Welcome to SQL: Modifying Databases and Tables

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Yet Another Unsolicited "Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas" Post

Yet Another Unsolicited "Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas" Post

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Connect Flask to a Database with Flask-SQLAlchemy

Connect Flask to a Database with Flask-SQLAlchemy

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Easily Build GraphQL APIs with Prisma

Easily Build GraphQL APIs with Prisma

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Google BigQuery's Python SDK: Creating Tables Programmatically

Google BigQuery's Python SDK: Creating Tables Programmatically

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Queries as Python Code with SQLAlchemy's Expression Language

Queries as Python Code with SQLAlchemy's Expression Language

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Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

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From CSVs to Tables: Infer Schema Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

From CSVs to Tables: Infer Schema Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

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The Hostile Extraction of Tableau Server Data

The Hostile Extraction of Tableau Server Data

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Databases in Python Made Easy with SQLAlchemy

Databases in Python Made Easy with SQLAlchemy

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Poetically Packaging Your Python Project

Poetically Packaging Your Python Project

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Using Redis to Store Information in Python Applications

Using Redis to Store Information in Python Applications

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