functional

Pandas is a fantastic library for data analysis, but its syntax can be a bit jarring to the unfamiliar user, especially one coming from the R tidyverse ecosystem where the %>% (pipe) operator makes method-chaining powerful and preferred for most operations. It turns out that a similar syntax is totally possible in pandas with the pipe and assign methods! With these, you can make your pandas code much more readable and reusable....

A few weeks ago, Matt Parker released a video where he posed a question he’d received from a viewer about the popular game Wordle: how many words can you try in a Wordle game without reusing a letter? At most, the answer can be 5 (25 letters total with one unused). So the question becomes: are there sets of five English words without any overlapping letters, and (while we’re at it) if so, how many?...