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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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Jul 3, 2018 • 6 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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Jul 9, 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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Jul 16, 2018 • 8 mins
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Trash Pandas: Messy, Convenient Database Operations via Pandas

Trash Pandas: Messy, Convenient Database Operations via Pandas

Using Pandas with databases wrong way, and how to clean it up with SQLAlchemy.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Jul 23, 2018 • 3 mins
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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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Jul 30, 2018 • 6 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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Aug 13, 2018 • 1 min
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Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II

Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II

Import dates & times from Excel .xlsx files into Pandas!
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Aug 20, 2018 • 2 mins
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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.
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Sep 3, 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
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Sep 10, 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
Matthew Alhonte
Matthew Alhonte
Sep 17, 2018 • 4 mins
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