A straightforward guide to getting involved — Getting started with open source software can feel intimidating, but it doesn’t need to. In this guide you’ll learn how to contribute to open source, no matter your experience level. First let’s look at why you might want to get involved. Why contribute to open source? There are many reasons to contribute to projects that…

Scheduling, with or without cron, is only a small part of the data coordination puzzle — I was showing off Prefect, the open source dataflow coordination platform, the other day and someone watching asked, “Why should I use Prefect instead of Cron?” That’s such a great question that I decided to write this blog post to answer it! 🚀 Cron is a great option to take…

Introducing Blocks: open source, modular, reusable, and sharable configuration plus code — Everyone who codes can save time by reusing configuration — whether for logging in to cloud providers or databases, configuring Docker containers, or sending notifications. Install the Prefect library and add a few lines of code and you’ve got all these super powers and more! 🦸 Have you ever wanted…

How to quickly make a Prefect Python deployment file — Prefect is an open-source dataflow coordination solution. It’s like air traffic control for your dataflows, providing you with observation and orchestration. In this post, you’ll see how to orchestrate your Prefect decorated functions using a new feature — a deployment file written in Python. 🎉 Prefect makes it easy to…

Shaping and reshaping NumPy and pandas objects to avoid errors — Shape errors are the bane of many folks learning data science. I would bet money that people have quit their data science learning journey due to frustration with getting data into the shape required for machine learning algorithms. Having a stronger understanding of how to reshape your data will spare…