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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/12/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Two weeks until Christmas! I hope everyone has started their Christmas shopping.
- I'm feeling incredibly daunted tbh.
  
  Have you considered just not doing Christmas? Only half joking.
  We used to stress about this Auntie that always got us a present, and that one that sometimes did and should we get them one because if they get us one and we don't have one we will feel stink, but if we get them one and they don't have one for us they will feel stink, and all that jaz.
  My Mum then said something like "When you decide to buy a present, is it because you want something in return? Or is it because you wanted to get them a present?".
  So now we keep our presents pretty limited. I do my immediate family (parents/siblings - with partners being joint with sibling. Just ask what they want, they ask what I want, and we buy and swap at Christmas), my wife does her family (normally just baking something each), and then we both work together on kids (TBH most of a santa sack is stuff we were gonna get anyway - wrap up a banana, jar of jam, box of crackers, etc. More to unwrap, tailored to what each kid likes, but not extra crap we don't need).
  Our aunties and uncles often buy stuff for us or these days more often the kids, and we say thank you and don't feel bad about not getting them things.
  In terms of the day itself, when my grandparents that used to organise Christmas were getting older and it was passing to my parents generation to host, we had a few relatives around for tea and were talking about it. My auntie said well what's the difference between what we just had (pot luck dinner) and Christmas? Just do the same but throw a few crackers around the table.
  Christmas isn't much of a drama anymore, because no one has high expectations for the day and everyone just enjoys hanging out.
  Though I get that there are families that won't let Christmas not be a big deal 😆
I do a lot of analytical work in my wider Team, and wanted to start adding Python to the arsenal, and have now just got access to Pycharm.
Wondering if there was anyone in a similar space (Data/Analytics), and was keen to hear some of the reasons you use Python, and how its incorporated into your workflow?
- I'm a data engineer working mostly in Python and sql embedded in a data analytics team. Our main use cases are for ingestion pipelines (API sources, glue scripts, batch jobs in airflow and aws), and some work in pandas that doesn't fit into our dbt sql models. I think it's also nice for data exploration and sharing via jupyter/colab notebooks.
  What are you thinking of using it for?
  
  There's a few different reasons that I've though about for now:
  A lot of the data that we are working with is quite large, and it's sometimes a struggle to work with it in Google Sheets / Excel (Unfortunately our workplace uses both for some reason)
  I have some weekly reports that I've somehow ended up generating (Getting data via SQL, massaging the data, and presenting via a dashboard or sharing a spreadsheet.
  For creating a repeatable set of calculations when someone asks for something (which I'm sort of doing via Powerquery or Google Apps Script)
  I'm quite big on visualizations, so I want to give Matplotlib a go.
  And I do of coding (Javascript & C++(Arduino)), and have always wanted to add Python to my list of skills, especially in recent times, as I begin to delve more into Data.
- I started working with python last year and now it an every day tool for me. Some of it is data / analytics, taking graphql queries, using pandas to restructure etc.
  I looked at pycharm for a while, but started out with VSCode; and then jumped to using a linux server & nvim instead.
  
  Sounds pretty cool!
  Did you have some programming experience before Python? - How long do you think it took for you to start being getting some "useful" outputs using Python?

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