DataraFlow 2026
This week I worked through a set of NumPy, pandas and SQL tasks. Most of them looked simple on paper. Test an array for missing values. Show the first ten rows of a table. Count the rainy days in London.
I assumed open data meant a download button. It took me most of an afternoon, a lot of trial and error, and some help from a friend who knows his way around data tools before I had four wells I could actually use.
Dates seemed like the easy part of learning Python.
One thing I’ve noticed while learning Python is that understanding a concept and being able to use that concept are two different things.
A beginner’s honest account of getting stuck, fixing things, and finally understanding what the code was doing.