#Code Snippet Corner

Code Snippet Corner

Your weekly dose of Python tidbits and Jupyter notebooks to get you feeling saucy.

Using Pandas and SQLAlchemy to Simplify Databases
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Using Pandas and SQLAlchemy to Simplify Databases

Use SQLAlchemy with PyMySQL to make database connections easy.
Getting Conda Envs (And Environment Variables!) To Play Nicely With Cron
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Getting Conda Envs (And Environment Variables!) To Play Nicely With Cron

Set up CRON jobs to interact with Conda environments.
A Dirty Way of Cleaning Data (ft. Pandas & SQL)
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A Dirty Way of Cleaning Data (ft. Pandas & SQL)

Cleaning data in Pandas the dirty way.
Trash Pandas: Messy, Convenient DB Operations via Pandas
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Trash Pandas: Messy, Convenient DB Operations via Pandas

(And a way to clean it up with SQLAlchemy).
All That Is Solid Melts Into Graphs
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Graphs

Reshaping Pandas dataframes with a real-life example, and graphing it with Altair.
Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I
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Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I

Pandas & Excel, Part 1.
Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II
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Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part II

Import dates & times from Excel .xlsx files into Pandas!
Tuning Machine Learning Hyperparameters with Binary Search
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Tuning Machine Learning Hyperparameters with Binary Search

Tune the n_estimators parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python.
Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part II: max_depth
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Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part II: max_depth

Tune the max_depth parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python
Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part III: min_samples_leaf
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Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part III: min_samples_leaf

Tune the min_samples_leaf parameter in for a Random Forests classifier in scikit-learn in Python .
Using Random Forests for Feature Selection with Categorical Features
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Using Random Forests for Feature Selection with Categorical Features

Python helper functions for adding feature importance, and displaying them as a single variable.
Downcast Numerical Data Types with Pandas
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Downcast Numerical Data Types with Pandas

Using an Example Where We Downcast Numerical Columns.
Removing Duplicate Columns in Pandas
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Removing Duplicate Columns in Pandas

Dealing with duplicate column names in your Pandas DataFrame.
Recasting Low-Cardinality Columns as Categoricals
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Recasting Low-Cardinality Columns as Categoricals

Downcast strings in Pandas to their proper data-types using HDF5.