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I was just running through this process and thought it might be helpful for others: What to do in Kaggle: Step 1. Go to your Kaggle account next to Discussion and click the … and then Account. Step 2. Scroll to API and click Create New API Token and a kaggle.json file will download. What…
The Python sort function is very straight-forward. The easiest way to think about this is the various ways you can sort files on your computer. Either by name, date, size, etc. This is essentially what Python sorted function is. A few examples and then I’ll link you to a more complex Gist with a deep…
Python is an incredibly powerful language. Learning how to create Python class variables is part of developing an object-oriented programming method. Creating individual objects from the class allows you to give each object whatever unique traits you choose. Making an object from a class is called instantiation. This lesson will teach you how to create…
A previous tutorial showed you how to drop columns in a pandas dataframe. Now we will look at how to drop rows in a pandas dataframe. There are multiple methods for how to drop rows in pandas dataframe. We will once again work with Titanic data. Dropping rows in pandas are full of options. This…
Pandas is a great tool for working on any machine learning or data science project. It’s a fundamental part of data wrangling. In this tutorial, we will show you how to drop a column in a pandas dataframe. In order to drop a column in pandas, either select all the columns by using axis or…
Perhaps you are at the beginning of your career or making a change in your career and want to know the difference between data science vs data analytics? In particular the difference in those jobs and salaries. Data is growing and nearly every business has some form of data or another. There are terms that…
I love Kaggle. I love the competition and testing my skills against brilliant data scientists from around the world. Today I decided to get back in it since the weather is prohibiting me to do anything else–its snowing and 15 degrees right now. So, I decide to enter the Real or Not? NLP with Disaster…
A big part of machine learning is data cleanup and feature engineering. A good tool in your data science toolkit will be label encoding. Text fields can be valuable for natural language processing, but not when you want to run something numeric against them. For example, what if your answers in the data are “yes”,…
This past week has been brutal on my sinuses. And being that I’m the type who has to find some science in nearly everything. We’ve had pretty epic thunderstorms and rain roll-through Northeast Ohio and every time one got close my head turned into an epic congested cluster. I decided to try to figure out…
I don’t know how I missed out on genetic programming. I’m still trying to pick my jaw up off the ground. It reminds me of The Sopranos when Paulie walks into a Starbucks clone and asks “how did we miss out on this?” With all honesty, I have no idea exactly how all of this…