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Real-world examples of Python being used to solve complex data problems, primarily using Jupyter notebooks.

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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Matthew Alhonte

Sep 24

Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part III: min_samples_leaf

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 .

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Matthew Alhonte

Sep 17

Tuning Random Forests Hyperparameters with Binary Search Part II: max_depth

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

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Matthew Alhonte

Sep 10

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

Sep 03

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

Aug 20

Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I

Importing Excel Datetimes Into Pandas, Part I

Pandas & Excel, Part 1.

Matthew Alhonte

Aug 13

Lazy Pandas and Dask

Lazy Pandas and Dask

Increase the performance of Pandas with Dask.

Matthew Alhonte

Aug 06

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

Jul 30

Getting Conda Envs (And Environment Variables!) To Play Nicely With Cron

Getting Conda Envs (And Environment Variables!) To Play Nicely With Cron

Set up CRON jobs to interact with Conda environments.

Matthew Alhonte

Jul 09

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