The below post shows how easily I can become distracted from my primary task…learning Python pandas! Because of this course I wanted more data to play with than the course provides. Sure it works well with a few thousand records but how would it fare with a more realistic larger dataset? So I decided to use a big data set that I created with my create random customer Python program, that I created a while ago to get a feel of how SQLite would handle bigger data. And to practice SQL selects. However my data didn’t have any numeric fields to practice pandas math routines on. I had added an amount field to my Julia program. but it no longer works. So I added it to my recent conversion of my Python 2 to Python 3 program. Well somewhere in the middle of the changes for Python 3, I learned about the Python “mimesis” package. I don’t remember where I first heard about it. Maybe a Python podcast, it was talked about in at least two. Anyway it all goes towards learning but my pandas progress slowed down a bit. But unless I satisfied my question about how pandas worked with real data it would be hard for me to maintain my enthusiasm to learn.
I mean really what was I thinking? A popular package used every day by data scientists around the world…and I’m wondering if it’s been tested. Still, sometimes you have to do something, just for your own satisfaction…