Uncover the hidden pitfalls of Excel regression and learn why Python is the key to unlocking clean, efficient data analysis.

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

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, ...

Information is gold. But to get that information, you need to process and refine raw data. But what happens when the data you need isn’t presented to you in a CSV or an API? And you have to source it ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Import a Firebird 1 database to pandas dataframes, show a summary of the database table names, field names, field data types, and index columns, optionally extract and save table data to a directory, ...

Streamlit lets you write web-based Python data applications without HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Here's a first look at Streamlit. A common problem with Python applications is how to share them with ...