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: Python
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...
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...
Two Great, Free Courses in Data Science Are Starting Today
Coursera is a great resource for continuing your learning and education as a software engineer and/or expanding into the field of data science. In this post, I discuss two free courses in data science they are offering. While I...
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...