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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.
Tuning Machine Learning Hyperparameters with Binary Search

Tuning Machine Learning Hyperparameters with Binary Search

Tune the n_estimators parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Sep 3, 2018 • 4 mins
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Easily Adding DB Variables To Match New Input

Easily Adding DB Variables To Match New Input

More API Columns, More Problems! Python, Pandas, & Functional Programming.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Aug 27, 2018 • 3 mins
Python
Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II

Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II

Import dates & times from Excel .xlsx files into Pandas!
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Aug 20, 2018 • 2 mins
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Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I

Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I

Parse dates and times from Excel .xlsx correctly when using Pandas.
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Aug 13, 2018 • 1 min
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Lazy Pandas and Dask

Lazy Pandas and Dask

Speed up data analysis by parallelizing your DataFrames.
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Aug 6, 2018 • 4 mins
Pandas
All That Is Solid Melts Into Graphs

All That Is Solid Melts Into Graphs

Reshaping Pandas DataFrames with a real-life example, and graphing it with Altair.
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Jul 30, 2018 • 6 mins
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A racoon Observing Bad Data Practices

Trash Pandas: Messy, Convenient Database Operations via Pandas

Using Pandas with databases wrong way, and how to clean it up with SQLAlchemy.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Jul 23, 2018 • 3 mins
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A Dirty Way of Cleaning Data (ft. Pandas & SQL)

A Dirty Way of Cleaning Data (ft. Pandas & SQL)

Cleaning data in Pandas the dirty way.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Jul 16, 2018 • 8 mins
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Getting Conda Environments To Play Nicely With Cron

Getting Conda Environments To Play Nicely With Cron

Set up CRON jobs to interact with Conda environments.
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Jul 9, 2018 • 3 mins
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Using Pandas and SQLAlchemy to Simplify Databases

Using Pandas and SQLAlchemy to Simplify Databases

Use SQLAlchemy with PyMySQL to make database connections easy.
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Jul 3, 2018 • 6 mins
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Learning Apache Spark 6
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GraphQL Tutorials 4
Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
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Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
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