Welcome back! VS Code (Visual Studio Code) is an awesome text editor used by tons of people, so let’s talk about some of the best secret tricks you should use within VS Code!

Zen Mode

Starting off we have Zen Mode, this essentially removes a lot of the distractions from your view in VS Code. In order to access this specific view, you want to click on View > Appearance > Toggle Zen Mode, zen mode will then be toggled on:

Welcome back! Recently, I’ve been talking about some of the highlights of each of the programming languages that i’m familiar with, the next language on this list is Scala, so let’s talk about why Scala maybe the best programming language to use. Now, I’m fully aware of the limitations that Scala has, but let’s just look at the positives in this article ☺️, with this long introduction out of the way, let’s get started!

Performance of Apache Spark

One of the biggest advantages of Scala is the ability of using Apache Spark, what is Apache Spark? It’s an engine for large scale data processing…

Welcome back! As some of you may know, Microsoft has their own free course platform called Microsoft Learn, one of these courses teaches you about Power BI, so lets see if this course is worth checking out. If you want to jump straight to this course, check out the link below:

The rest of this article is going to cover the highlights of this course, so make sure to check out the course above to get all of the details of it. Starting off, this course breaks down the basics of Power BI:

Welcome back! R is an awesome programming language used heavily in data science, so if you’re a beginner data scientist you might be trying to find some projects to build, well you came to the right place! Let’s cover some of my favorite R projects that are perfect for your résumé!

Reading / Uploading Data From Google Sheets Into R

First off we have reading / uploading data from Google Sheets into your R environment, this is easily one of my favorite projects to teach to beginners. …

Welcome back! PyCharm is one of my favorite IDE’s to develop Python code in, so let’s talk about some of the best extensions you should use with PyCharm if you’re a software developer.

Sonar Lint

First off we have Sonar Lint, an awesome extension for any data scientist for PyCharm. This specific extension essentially detects and notifies you of problems with your code, this includes mistakes in spelling and even flaws in syntax! If you want to check this extension out, here is the link:

Highlight Bracket Pair

Next up we have Highlight Bracket Pair, this is a must have for any programming project. This…

Welcome back! Recently, I’ve been talking about some of the highlights of each of the programming languages that i’m familiar with, the next language on this list is Julia, so let’s talk about why Julia maybe the best programming language to use. Now, I’m fully aware of the limitations that Julia has, but let’s just look at the positives in this article ☺️, with this long introduction out of the way, let’s get started!

Speed

Welcome back! As some of you may know, Scikit-Learn is a very popular machine learning package that’s used in many different companies all across the world, so what if there was a cheat sheet that showcased the highlights of this package? Well, there are actually a few of them, so let’s talk about one of the best cheat sheets for this package. If you want to jump straight to this sheet, here is a link to it:

The remainder of this article is going to cover the highlights of this sheet, so make sure to view the sheet above…

Welcome back! Apple is a massive company that employs tons of data scientists, so let’s see what Apple uses for their data science teams. Now, the process of me finding this information was fairly basic, I went to their career page, searched for Data Science positions, and noted the most frequent languages, packages and tools I saw them use: