Irina TruongHow to lose two jobs in one yearand learn to accept imperfection6 min read·Feb 20, 2024--4--4
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to lie with data, Part 3, or Fully vaccinated account for 91% of deaths in the countryThe story5 min read·Sep 17, 2022--1--1
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to lie with data, part 2or Unvaccinated Covid patients are contagious for less time than those vaxxed or boosted7 min read·Sep 3, 2022----
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to lie with data, Part 1or California’s COVID rate is now twice that of Florida’s5 min read·Nov 12, 2021--1--1
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesCOVID-19 and air travel, with PandasA recent article in Washington Post claimed that air travel is significantly less dangerous than driving. A lot of people prefer to…4 min read·Mar 21, 2021--1--1
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to use Pandas to access databasesand is that the right thing to do4 min read·Nov 25, 2019----
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to get rid of loops and use window functions, in Pandas or Spark SQLEvery software developer knows that iterating through rows of a dataset is one sure killer of performance. Loops are bad. Vectorized…5 min read·Sep 14, 2018--7--7
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesHow to rewrite your SQL queries in Pandas, and moreFifteen years ago, there were only a few skills a software developer would need to know well, and he or she would have a decent shot at 95%…6 min read·Mar 4, 2018--47--47
Irina Truonginj-bennet codesDealing with datetimes like a pro in PandasIn my previous article (https://codeburst.io/dealing-with-datetimes-like-a-pro-in-python-fb3ac0feb94b), I was writing about challenges…3 min read·Dec 28, 2017--5--5
Irina TruongMyths and mistakes of PyCon proposalsThis year, I signed up to be a part of the PyCon Program Committee — a group of people who evaluate and select talks for the annual Python…4 min read·Dec 21, 2017--1--1