Some great links for 01/11/2019

• Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby

Ruby is such an elegant language!

tags: ruby tutorial scope

• Introduction - Ruby Reference

Great, if complete and accurate

tags: language ruby reference

• Small Functions considered Harmful – Cindy Sridharan – Medium

Excellent critique of slavish following of DRY principle when designing classes and methods.

tags: dry design abstraction

• The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python – Towards Data Science

Great new visualization library that I had not seen before!

tags: data visualization python

• 40 Best Ruby Gems We Can’t Live Without – Codica Journal – Medium

A great list of some of the best, well known gems for ruby and for rails.

tags: ruby gems

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Python – Towards Data Science

Interesting practical article about using MCMCs to create estimates.

tags: carlo science markov chain monte data

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.