Python

Hacking Meteorites Part 1: Calculating percent weights

Earlier this month I participated in the American Museum of Natural History’s annual hackathon (see my last post for details about the event overall). During the hackathon, I worked with Katy Abbott, another Helen Fellow at the museum with me, to use a machine learning algorithm called DBSCAN to tackle our challenge. This post explains the process we used to complete the first step of the challenge: estimating the percent weights of elements in a meteorite.

Python in RMarkdown

Using Python in RMarkdown In order to write blog posts using Python code, I wanted to figure out a way to include Python code chunks in RMarkdowns. When you insert a code chunk in RMarkdown, you have the option of specifying the language of that chunk: the default is R, but you can also insert a Bash, SQL, Python, etc. code chunk. When I attempted to insert a Python code chunk and import libraries, however, I kept getting the error: