When I bought a Pixel 3 last year I got access to YT Music Plus (for a year free), which gave me google music as well. I got used to the quality of music I was hearing in the car (via my smartphone) or in my headphones, via Google Play Continue Reading
For more information on Golem walkthroughs, CLICK HERE. One of the nice built in features of the Golem automation framework, is the ability to easily setup and configure environments. An environment, is a label that the tests will use to substitute the base URL of the test environment. This is Continue Reading
Over the past few years I’ve built or used many a web automation framework. Lately, over the last year, I’ve settled on one particular automation framework – Golem. I use Golem for testing all sorts of code bases. Since web automation is using Front End access, it’s really of no Continue Reading
A simple way to time the execution of events is to call the console function for timing: This will output the time in seconds, like: 0.598472
A few years ago I bought a Dell XPS desktop. It was on sale I thought a good deal, so I picked it up. It had a traditional hard drive (not an SSD) and onboard video. I had anticipated upgrading the desktop over time…. and in fact I did. Dell Continue Reading
Have you ever installed a package in R and noticed a conflict issued? I for one didn’t understand the output on the conflict. The output is worded like so: In the case above it’s specific to the tidyverse package. I thought it meant that the package I was installing (in Continue Reading
I you use R and find that certain programs refuse to install (using install.packages) it’s no doubt that you’re using R from within Anaconda. Anaconda is a package for statistical analysis. In general Anaconda is useful for a variety of Python related packages. However, R is also provided as an Continue Reading
Similar to posts in R on this topic, we can use Python’s Pandas library to replace Categorical data with numeric values. While the replacement syntax is backwards, IMO, this one liner works pretty good and you get to set the numeric value of your choice. However, you have to supply Continue Reading
While a one liner to convert categorical values to numerics is mentioned in a previous post, this post will cover a better way to achieve similar results (using levels.) Another way to convert data to numeric is with the as.numeric method. In R, you can access A column of a Continue Reading
When using a dataset, sometimes I want to convert a column of two values (such as Gender) to numerical values like 0, 1. Let’s take this dataset.. It’s called “Mall_Customers” and it has a column called “Gender.” Gender has values like “Female” and “Male.” To subset the column from the Continue Reading
By Brian Warner When I bought a Pixel 3 last year I got access to YT Music Plus (for a year free), which gave me google music as well. I got used to the quality of music I was hearing in the car (via my smartphone) or in my headphones, via Google Play Continue Reading
