Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Nothing new in this codebase. I was hoping to explore the Succession data a little more and flesh out a first draft of a combined HTML/Plotly-Dash page with some interactivity. I chose a more modest goal today because I am only working at half-strength. American Airlines stranded me in Charlotte...

Huzzah! A minor one. I have not rolled out a big new flashy dashboard exploring all the text mining data I have procured by scraping fan typed transcripts of the TV shows Succession and Mad Men. What I did was take out the good parts of the Mad Men work I did about a year ago for my site in its...

Hey dear blog readers! Remember way back when this domain name pointed to a Django app with no blog section? I thought I ported everything over to Flask in the big frontend migration at the beginning of the year. A full HTML page Plotly dashboard about the name drops throughout the seasons of...

Aluh akbar! My nerves have calmed. I passed my Spark Developer Associate Certification exam from Databricks. I was well prepared for it yet I was incensed with apprehension. Nothing some careful breathing couldn’t handle, yet my nerves were definitely in need of assuaging. It felt like the...

The modules I use to make the Plotly charts that get displayed with Plotly-Dash are far too bloated. They have been that way for a while yet I keep piling on new stuff, loaded with redundancies. My update development time is at least fifteen percent scrolling through superfluous code. I remember...

This blog post comes with no updates to the codebase. At least not to this one. I’ve more or less decided to throw everything I’ve got into mastering Apache Spark. This blog post was spurred by my breakthrough in setting up a Spark cluster on a linux VM in local mode. I then downloaded a jar...