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SQL Hell, Warm Up

Do you consider yourself an explorer in the furthest regions of programming experience? Do you like pushing the boundaries of proper practice and good taste when it comes to solving programming problems? Have you ever wondered - I bet I could solve that with SQL? Me too. And it turns out in many cases, you can. Often you shouldn’t, but you can. In this post and the next couple I’m going to be exploring the furthest reaches of what we can do with the database language every dev knows at least a little bit of....

January 7, 2023 · Timothy Renner

Finding Bigfoot with Dash, Part 3

Adding a search bar to the Bigfoot report titles and wiring it to the sightings map and plots. Part 1: Map Part 2: Plots Part 3: Interactions Warning I wrote this when Plotly Dash was brand new. Though the fundamental process and setup is the same, some of the details are quite a bit simpler now than they were when I wrote this. In particular, the Dash Bootstrap Components library replaces the manually set CSS classes and works really well....

August 10, 2022 · Timothy Renner

Finding Bigfoot with Dash, Part 2

Building the plots necessary to find Bigfoot with Plotly’s Dash framework. Part 1: Map Part 2: Plots Part 3: Interactions Warning I wrote this when Plotly Dash was brand new. Though the fundamental process and setup is the same, some of the details are quite a bit simpler now than they were when I wrote this. In particular, the Dash Bootstrap Components library replaces the manually set CSS classes and works really well....

August 9, 2022 · Timothy Renner

Finding Bigfoot with Dash, Part 1

Building a map of Bigfoot sightings with Plotly’s Dash framwork. Part 1: Map Part 2: Plots Part 3: Interactions Warning I wrote this when Plotly Dash was brand new. Though the fundamental process and setup is the same, some of the details are quite a bit simpler now than they were when I wrote this. In particular, the Dash Bootstrap Components library replaces the manually set CSS classes and works really well....

August 8, 2017 · Timothy Renner