my data was too big for google sheets, so i installed and learned python. but now it's too big for my computer, python won't run it. off to buy a new computer i guess?
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im getting ptsd to when people were trying to explain to me how to install python, sounds simple but it was not. this tweet has the ominousness of someone who does not remember what it was like to not know any basics
I'm sure one of us could walk you through setting up a beefy cloud machine. And once it's up and running it can mirror your current workflow/layout. Only difference is one extra click to connect to the remote computer at the start of the day.
colab.research.google.com - free computer with Python already installed, no/minimal set up required.
python versions is the number one problem keeping society from everyone becoming software engineers
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IT may sound ominous, but cloud computing is 100% a better solution. Learning a little about it from Google Cloud or AWS is probably going to be way worth it.
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I never really got into jupyter notebooks, but if you used google sheets/Python you can:
- export to CSV
- store the CSV in AWS S3
- use the URL that points to the S3 file to load the data into a cloud database like this docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/
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learn virtual environments. using anaconda makes installation simple. you could also run docker containers that have the environments you need
Python is notoriously difficult to deal with due to its versioning process. Python 2 and 3 are very incompatible. The vast majority of languages version way better and are much easier to install.
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mostly the hard part is over, getting used to working in a remote environment isn't as bad as managing wrangling python
but all the same, new computer seems like a reasonable path forward
I’m a senior developer who is experienced in coding, but hadn’t done much with python. I tried to get it set up on my computer to play with Stable Diffusion, and let me tell you it _is_ a confusing arcane mess and it’s not just you
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