Python – Ben Alex Keen

Deploying Streamlit Applications with Azure App Services

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:6th June 2022
Post category:Azure Python

Streamlit is an open-source app framework for Machine Learning and Data Science teams. The aim of streamlit is to help data science practitioners, who might not have much experience with…

Send WhatsApp messages using Python

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:25th May 2022
Post category:Python

Send WhatsApp messages using PythonWhatsApp has now opened up its API so you no longer have to go through a partner to send and receive WhatsApp messages! In this blog…

Detecting face masks using Azure Cognitive Services

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:4th November 2021
Post category:Azure Python

Detecting face masks using Azure Cognitive ServicesAzure Cognitive Services provide us with APIs to a number of pre-trained models across Speech, Language, Vision and Decisions. One of the Vision APIs…

Introduction to PySpark – Part 5

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:26th June 2021
Post category:Python Spark

Introduction to PySpark Part 5 - Aggregating DataThis is the fifth part in a series of blog posts as an introduction to PySpark. The other parts of this blog post…

Introduction to PySpark – Part 4

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:26th June 2021
Post category:Python Spark

Introduction to PySpark Part 4 - Summarising DataThis is the fourth part in a series of blog posts as an introduction to PySpark. The other parts of this blog post…

Introduction to PySpark – Part 3

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:26th June 2021
Post category:Python Spark

Introduction to PySpark Part 3 - Adding, Updating and Removing ColumnsThis is the third part in a series of blog posts as an introduction to PySpark. The other parts of…

Introduction to PySpark – Part 2

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:26th June 2021
Post category:Python Spark

Introduction to PySpark Part 2 - Selecting, Filtering and Sorting DataThis is the second part in a series of blog posts as an introduction to PySpark. The other parts of…

Introduction to PySpark – Part 1

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:25th June 2021
Post category:Python Spark

Introduction to PySpark Part 1 - Creating DataFrames and Reading Data from FilesThis is the first part in a series I'm putting together as an introduction to PySpark. I find…

Automated Deployment of Serverless Python Web APIs using Azure Functions and Azure DevOps

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:17th June 2021
Post category:Azure Python

Automated Deployment of Serverless Python Web APIs using Azure Functions and Azure DevOpsIn this post we're going to go through the end-to-end automated deployment of a web API created in…

Unit Testing with Databricks Part 2 – Integrating PySpark Unit Testing into an Azure Pipelines CI Pipeline

Post author:Ben Keen
Post published:22nd February 2021
Post category:Azure Python Spark

Unit Testing with DatabricksPart 2 - Integrating PySpark Unit Testing into an Azure Pipelines CI PipelineThis is part 2 of 2 blog posts exploring PySpark unit testing with Databricks. In…