Stream Our Mistakes

Scatter plots with Matplotlib  I'm in the middle of taking a 6 week Data Visualization course at Code Academy  so I guess you might call this a midterm project. In this jupyter notebook project, we have use real world space data (celestial star location ) for the Orion constellation and output a 3D scatter plot. This was fun but because it is an intro course, the project didn't even get to labeling the actual star which I thought was bunk.  At the end of the project, they offer you a link  to some star data and challenge you to plot some local stars. So I decided to publish my results that I will end up turning in for the extra credit portion of the project. (code below) I picked a few stars, starting with some familiar ones, like Sirius, and started plotting it out. It took a while to get the labels on correctly, for some reason, I thought it was going to be easy but it definitely took some searching as the 3D portion of it made finding the examples far more challen

Copy SSIS packages from SQL Server 2008 R2 to another SQL Server 2008 First day at the new job I was asked if I knew anything about moving SSIS packages from one server to another server. The developer/dbo was dreading having to manually download and deploy the SSIS packages from the old server to the new server. I quickly started looking for an automated, scripted solution and came across this stackoverflow post that was asking nearly the exact same question.  The only real difference was the original question was asking about  moving where as we needed to copy. (moving meant removing from old server as we nearly found out the hard way). Below is the sql code from that post that I decided to group together on my github  for sharing and for later use which by the way, I ended up reusing. I think making this into a stored procedure with a few more bells and whistles might come in handy.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3