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May 5, 2022
How to profile your PHP applications with Xdebug
Code profiling is a practice that is worth to be known when you need optimize your application to make it meet some performance requirements. It might even become your best fellow when it comes to solve efficiently some performance issues, either in...
ReadFebruary 7, 2022
Ending an Open Source project (Mapael)
I wanted to write a little post about Mapael and its future, as this project occupied me during several years and has gained some popularity year after year, but I didn't talk about it since a long time. I began to develop Mapael from scratch in 2013...
ReadMarch 8, 2018
Titanic Kaggle challenge
Here is my first kernel along with my very first attempt with the Titanic challenge (newbie still learning ...). The goal is to achieve a binary classification in order to predict whether a passenger survived the Titanic sinking (variable 'Survived')....
ReadNovember 14, 2017
Les accidents de la circulation de 2005 à 2016 visualisés avec R
En plein apprentissage de R, je vais essayer de mettre en pratique mes connaissances nouvellement acquises au travers d’une mini-étude basique sur les données des accidents corporels de la circulation en France entre 2005 et 2016. Mon objectif...
ReadOctober 12, 2017
(tentative de) Visualisation des données du climat à Rennes depuis 1999 avec R
Après être tombé sur l’infographie “Rain patterns in Hong Kong, Some of the wettest and driest days since 1990” du South China Morning Post, j’ai cherché à produire une visualisation similaire des données climatologiques mais appliquée à...
ReadSeptember 28, 2017
Mémorandum sur ce qu’il ne faut pas faire en Open Data
Ce billet a pour objectif d’ériger une courte (et donc forcément incomplète) liste des “don’t do this” à destination des producteurs de données ouvertes - C’est à dire toutes les choses qui peuvent ralentir ou compliquer (voire limiter)...
ReadSeptember 13, 2016
Tutorial : Turn your data into narratives using TextGenerator, Wikidata and Google Spreadsheet
This tutorial shows you how to generate narratives from data in a few steps using the TextGenerator, Wikidata and Google Spreadsheet. The TextGenerator is at first a PHP package that allows to produce texts from data by using a template in which...
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