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Artfully balance a harmony of statistics, engineering, and machine learning to solve larger-than-life problems. Focused heavily on Python-based tooling.
From CSVs to Tables: Infer Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

From CSVs to Tables: Infer Data Types From Raw Spreadsheets

The quest to never explicitly set a table schema ever again.
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Todd Birchard todd
Jan 23, 2019 • 9 mins
Big Data
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 matt
Sep 24, 2018 • 2 mins
Code Snippet Corner
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
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Sep 17, 2018 • 4 mins
Code Snippet Corner
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
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Matthew Alhonte matt
Sep 10, 2018 • 2 mins
Code Snippet Corner
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
Code Snippet Corner
Automagically Turn JSON into Pandas DataFrames

Automagically Turn JSON into Pandas DataFrames

Let Pandas do the heavy lifting for you when turning JSON into a DataFrame.
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Graham Beckley graham
Jul 28, 2018 • 13 mins
Pandas
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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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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Matthew Alhonte matt
Jul 9, 2018 • 3 mins
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Data Analysis with Pandas 11
Build Flask Apps 11
Learning Apache Spark 6
Google Cloud Architecture 6
Mastering SQLAlchemy 4
GraphQL Tutorials 4
Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
Web Scraping With Python 2
Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
Getting Started with Django 2
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