Microsoft has launched a four-part developer series explaining how to build a CLI-style AI agent that can plan tasks, use tools, retain information, and ...

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

This vibe coding cheat sheet explains how plain-language prompts can build apps fast, plus the planning, testing, and security checks needed.

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 ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

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 ...

MarkItDown is an open-source Python library from Microsoft that converts various file formats to Markdown for indexing and analysis. Markdown is a popular lightweight markup language with plain text ...