Watercolor portrait of Eric in a cap and glasses. Watercolor portrait of Eric in a cap and glasses.

Eric Chan

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Welcome! Sharing some thoughts, and things I’m reading.

Latest Posts

Speed up Python's pandas slow read_excel()

3/30/2019
Batch-convert xlsx to csv with xlsx2csv and multithreading so pandas can read from csv instead.

Push pandas DataFrames to Tableau Server/Online

3/18/2019
Automate Tableau Online refreshes by turning pandas DataFrames into .hyper extracts with pandleau and publishing via Tableau Server Client.

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