How to make the first row in your spreadsheet or dataframe the header in...
If you have imported a CSV file into your notebook and use Pandas to view the dataframe you might find that the header of...
Machine Learning: Creating vectors, matrix and arrays
To get started in machine learning there are some basics that you need to know and understand before you can ever just start coding...
What is the Python sorted function? An example of how to use it.
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...
Best practices for naming variables in Python
When naming variables in Python there are some best practices that we will discuss. If you don't follow the best practices you'll get errors...
How to: A simple Python Function example
Functions in Python can be simple or extraordinarily complex. This will teach you how to write a simple Python Function example. From there you...
Use Google Colab and Kaggle Data with bonus: fastai2
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...
How to add a column to pandas dataframe
Pandas allow for many methods for adding and dropping content. We have covered how to drop a column and how to drop a row...
Feature Engineering: LabelEncoder sklearn example
A big part of machine learning is data cleanup and feature engineering. A good tool in your data science toolkit will be label encoding....
Analyzing NFL Concussion data for Kaggle Data Science Competition
Recently, I entered the NFL Concussion on punt returns contest for data scientists. It wasn't the normal machine learning problem. In fact, it is...
How to create Python class variables
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...
