Kaggle 30 Days of ML – Day 1
Starting today Kaggle is offering 30 days of tutorials for those looking to get started with Machine Learning. Kaggle 30 Days of ML – Day 1 starts with a walkthrough of the Kaggle environment...
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Read Large Files Efficiently with Python
With the rate at which data is growing the size of files we are expected to process is growing seemingly exponentially. These increasingly large files mean we need to do everything we can to...
Use Git in Your Next Data Science Project
Let’s be honest, source control isn’t the most exciting topic to discuss in the world of data science, but it is crucial to both understand and use is it in your projects; continue reading...
Get Up to $150 in AWS Credits
Do you want to earn up to $150 (USD) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits just for learning about AWS? Sign up for AWSEducate and complete one if their training paths by May 31, 2019,...
3 Quick Ways to Create Graphs of Your Class Distributions in Python
Whenever we are building machine learning models we always have to evaluate the data. For classification problems, at the very least, we need to look at the class distributions to see how balanced or...
Setting the Python Anaconda Environment in VS Code
Visual Studio Code is an excellent IDE for working with all kinds of different languages and projects. Additionally, I am quite surprised by how many open source developers (i.e. Microsoft “detractors”) out there have taken...
Using Keras and TensorFlow in Kaggle Competition to Classify Satellite Data
If you’re reading this blog then I am sure you have heard of Kaggle. There is a competition under way for classifying satellite data as icebergs or ships. Additionally, there is a great “starter”...
The Easiest Way to Exit from Vi and Vim
Personally, Vi and Vim are painful to work with and I always forget how to exit out of the editor when I am done working. So, for my reference and yours, here is the...
10 Elegant Scripts for Working with List, Arrays, and Tuples in Python
We all need to work with lists, arrays, and tuples when programming and it seems like every time I work with Python I am impressed by someone else’s concise, elegant code for working with...
Using Anaconda with Python and Running Out of Disk Space? Here’s a Tip to Quickly Free Up a Lot of Space
With all of the Python code I have been writing lately and using Anaconda to manage the installation of packages, I have been watching the free disk space on my machine disappear at an...