Is CRAN Holding R Back?
Today the R package acs was "archived" from CRAN. This led to the...
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Choroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN
I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived...
New Python Functions for Working with Multi-Year ACS Data
As part of my hometown_analysis project I've written some new functions for working...
New Project: hometown_analysis
Over the weekend I started a new project: an analysis of how my...
A Guide to Contributing to Open Source Python Packages
I recently made my first contribution to an established Python package (link). When...
How Much Python Do Data Scientists Need To Know?
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about Polars, a new...
Why I’m Switching to Polars
I recently decided to switch from Pandas to Polars for my Python projects...
Recording of my talk at the SF Python Meetup
The recording of my June talk at the SF Python Meetup ("A Streamlit...
Ari Lamstein
I’m a software engineer who focuses on data projects.
I most recently worked as a Staff Data Science Engineer at a marketing analytics consultancy. While there I developed internal tools for our data scientists, ran workshops on data science and mentored data scientists on software engineering.