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...
Category: Pandas
Your First Step Into Data Science: Getting Set Up In 15 Minutes
One of the most frustrating and confusing parts of getting started in Data Science is getting your machine set up. With the steps outlined here, you can have a Python environment set up and...
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...
My Machine Learning Articles on CodeProject
About a week ago I wrote and submitted 2 articles for the Machine Learning and AI Challenge on CodeProject. While I will admit that I put these articles together rather hastily, they do demonstrate many...
A Quick, Simple Example of Creating Dummy Variables Using Python Pandas
Problem Many machine learning algorithms simply can’t be applied to columns that contain non-numeric values (such as categories that are indicated as strings like “Chicago”, “Boston”, or “New York”). For example. something like this:...