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Matthew Alhonte

Matthew Alhonte

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Supervillain in somebody's action hero movie. Experienced a radioactive freak accident at a young age which rendered him part-snake and strangely adept at Python.
A Brief History of Pandas

A Brief History of Pandas

A nuclear test gone wrong, high finance, and some convenient code!
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Feb 17, 2020 • 5 mins
Pandas
Being REALLY Lazy With Multiple Aggregations in Pandas

Being REALLY Lazy With Multiple Aggregations in Pandas

Perform multiple aggregate functions simultaneously with Pandas 0.25
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Dec 9, 2019 • 3 mins
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Splitting Columns With Pandas

Splitting Columns With Pandas

Split columns containing multiple values in your Pandas DataFrame into multiple columns, each containing a single value.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Nov 19, 2019 • 7 mins
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World's on Fire

World's on Fire

The rainforest is on fire. Here are things you can do about it.
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Aug 22, 2019
Recasting Low-Cardinality Columns as Categoricals

Recasting Low-Cardinality Columns as Categoricals

Downcast strings in Pandas to their proper data-types using HDF5.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Jun 3, 2019 • 3 mins
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Removing Duplicate Columns in Pandas

Removing Duplicate Columns in Pandas

Dealing with duplicate column names in your Pandas DataFrame.
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May 28, 2019 • 3 mins
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Downcast Numerical Data Types with Pandas

Downcast Numerical Data Types with Pandas

Using an Example Where We Downcast Numerical Columns.
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Jan 28, 2019 • 5 mins
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Using Random Forests for Feature Selection with Categorical Features

Using Random Forests for Feature Selection with Categorical Features

Python helper functions for adding feature importance, and displaying them as a single variable.
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Sep 24, 2018 • 2 mins
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Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters: min_samples_leaf

Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters: min_samples_leaf

Tune the min_samples_leaf parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python
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Sep 17, 2018 • 4 mins
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Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters: max_depth

Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters: max_depth

Tune the max_depth parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Sep 10, 2018 • 2 mins
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Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
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