I’ve been a Scientific American subscriber for many years but over the last year I’ve fallen way behind. Of late I’ve embarked on a frantic catch up and in the December 2016 […]
Sam Mason
Data Science Periodic Table
I’m posting this because it’s a really cool graphic. This isn’t mine – it’s been floating around the tech internet for a year now so thought I’d put it up here for […]
Adventures in Python #4
“Orders are Orders!” Ok – I so fell into another hole. This time it was using the assign method on a pandas data frame. It turns out that the assign method, which ostensibly […]
Pro Tip #2 – Excel Preparation
It often happens that you need to provide a dataset to non-tech personnel in your company. The most common use case for this that I’ve encountered is when a business unit wants […]
Pro Tip #1 – The Joy of TABs
Exporting data into flat files is a really common task for a data scientist yet over the last few years I’ve seen almost everyone fall down a particular rabbit hole when it […]
Adventures in Python #3
The iterrows Experience There are a number of ways to iterate over the rows of a Pandas data frame and without doubt the worst is to use the iterrows method. I didn’t […]
Less is More
A little while back I stumbled upon an article called Data Looks Better Naked and then read Storytelling With Data. The combination of these two resources completely changed my thinking on data […]
Burning Out
I’ve done the first decision tree It looks all wrong – perhaps it’s me I’ve tried all week – but something’s lacking I’m boosting, bagging – even stacking I’m analysing corporate greed […]
Deep Learning – Part Two
Originally published 22/08/2017 as part of the Bulletproof Technical Blog In part one of I wrote about some of the history and theoretical basics of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Now it’s time to […]
Adventures in Python #2
Two Paths to Comprehension? When I first learned about python’s list comprehensions I remember reading that the easiest way to think about them is as a rolled up for loop. But there’s […]