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Double-byte Fonts Garbled in Mac matplotlib-Generated PDFs

In Mac matplotlib-generated PDFs, double-byte characters are unreadable in Adobe Acrobat Reader while they look fine in Preview.app.

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Notes on the Book "Effective Pandas"

The book I introduced in the last post has turned out to be so fantastic that I have decided to make notes of it. This is a live document; I started from Chapter 21 and am going on from there. I will return to the earlier chapters if I still have time and power. The author recently appeared in Real Python Podcast: Becoming More Effective at Manipulating Data with Pandas and talked about the book. Introduction Installation Data Structures Seris Introduction Series Deep Dive Operators (& Dunder Methods) Aggregate Methods Conversion Methods Manipulation Methods Indexing Operations String Manipulation Date and Time Manipulation Plotting with a Series Dates in the Index […]

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