The recent announcement from Microsoft that they have now integrated Python into it’s Excel spreadsheet software has opened up a wealth of new applications for data analytics, automation and number ...

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...

Overview Structured Python learning path that moves from fundamentals (syntax, loops, functions) to real data science tools ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

Python’s visualization ecosystem in 2026 combines mature libraries like Matplotlib 3.10, Seaborn, and Plotly 6 with AI-driven platforms that produce visuals from data or text. Services such as Canva ...

This article is all about giving you some practical python programming examples to try out. We’ll cover the basics, then move into some number stuff, data structures, file handling, and even some of ...

While you can do some good data analysis with a spreadsheet like Excel, if you want to take your calculations to the next level, you might try Python in a Jupyter notebook instead. Here are some ...

Python dataclasses work behind the scenes to make your Python classes less verbose and more powerful all at once. Here's an introduction to using dataclasses in Python. Everything in Python is an ...