James McPherson

James McPherson @jmcp

About: Data wrangler, software engineer, systems programmer, cyclist. Unix (mostly Solaris) for aeons. I talk C, Python, SQL, Performance, Java, Kafka and Makefiles.

Location:
Brisbane, Australia
Joined:
Apr 11, 2019

James McPherson
articles - 6 total

I know, I'll use a regex!

This post appeared first on my blog, at...

Learn More 5 0Aug 14 '20

A shell and GNU awk oneliner

I'm updating a test suite for $work, and need to handle input data with differing numbers of columns....

Learn More 3 0Jul 28 '20

A (not so) brief introduction to using the Python database API

Database access using Python, and some investigations

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How I started learning Apache Spark

I've realised over the years that the best way for me to start learning a new language, toolkit or te...

Learn More 3 0Oct 15 '19

Sentiment Analysis of Australian political hashtags

It's time for another post from my home blog. This is another #Python #microservice, which ties...

Learn More 7 1Oct 14 '19

A microservice making electorate info more accessible

A microservice tying together KML and GeoJSON with Australian electorate data

Learn More 8 0Oct 4 '19