From tables to interactive graphs — I vividly remember the graphs of the vital signs of patients during my working period as an MD in the IC department. Graphical representations of vital signs can help in getting a better insight into what is happening behind the curtains. …

Software engineers are improving healthcare behind the curtains — Epidemiological studies show a rapid (3–5% annually) increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes over the past 50 years. Approximately 1 in 300 children in the US currently has type 1 diabetes. There are genetic factors that play a role but the exact reasons for this…

An argument for the second “hello word” — Python can extend the power of your brain exponentially through mass data analysis, but getting started with coding can be just as chaotic as entering any community within normal life. There are different versions of the language, different modules to achieve the same thing, different habits for testing and debugging…

Track, monitor and own your health data with these android apps. — OpenScale Get measurements from smart scales. Features: - OpenScale doesn’t send data to the cloud and “not having permission to access the internet is a strong guarantee of that.” - Support for a number of Bluetooth scales from many manufacturers. - Allows mailing of data as CSV file. Creator: Oliexdev Creation: Dec 7, 2014 Contributors: 130 GitHub Repo…

Score calculator, feedback form, appointments dashboard, device profile updater, price scraper dashboard and health dashboard. — I have been experimenting with Dash for around 1.5 years now. I thought it was time to list my collection of Dash apps. I hope that others will also be motivated to share a list of their work so we can learn from each other. GitHub repo and Heroku demo…

Add Mailgun to the add-ons (there are other options, but this one was for me the easiest to configure). You can do it via the CLI with: heroku addons:create mailgun:Starter Or you can do it via the user-interface via resources and in the add-ons input typing Mailgun: See your heroku…

Tracking changes in Google Spreadsheets with Google Apps Script — Let’s say you’re keeping track of your team progress in Google Spreadsheets. Every individual checks a box or adds a row if work is completed. It would be handy if you could show how much of the total work is completed everyday/hour, how many new orders there are in your…

Convert Dash apps into GUIs with Pyinstaller, Selenium and Dash — Background Instead of uploading your Dash app to a cloud platform for distribution, you might want to transform it into an executable file in windows or on a Mac. …

It takes less than an hour… — There are many calculators online that are used to estimate the chance of medical harm due to disease such as risk calculators for thrombosis or mortality calculators for pneumonia. Most of them are made in Javascript and/or HTML. To see if and how Dash and Python can be used for…