Ah, hyperparameter tuning. Time & compute-intensive. Frequently containing weird non-linearities in how changing a parameter changes the score and/or the time it takes to train the model.
RandomizedSearchCV goes noticeably faster than a full GridSearchCV but it still takes
What if, like during my data import task a few months back, the dates & times are in separate columns? This gives us a few new issues. Let's import that Excel file!
import pandas as pd
import xlrd
import datetimeDifferent file formats are different! For all kinds of reasons!
A few months back, I had to import some Excel files into a database. In this process I learned so much about the delightfully unique way Excel stores dates &
Ah, laziness. You love it, I love it, everyone agrees it's just better.
Flesh-and-blood are famously lazy. Pandas the package, however, uses Eager Evaluation. What's Eager Evaluation, you ask? Is Pandas really judgey, hanging out on the street corner and
Last few Code Snippet Corners were about using Pandas as an easy way to handle input and output between files & databases. Let's shift gears a little bit! Among other reasons, because earlier today I discovered a package that exclusively
This isn't really a tutorial on cron in general; Better people at Linux have written way better ones than I could write. Here's one: http://mediatemple.net/blog/news/complete-beginners-guide-cron-part-1/ This is more of a code journaling exercise for a