How to drop columns in a pandas dataframe
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...
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 return or print multiple variables in Python
We have discussed ways to handle variables and the best practices for naming variables in Python. We have noticed a number of searches on...
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...
What is an epoch in machine learning?
An epoch is one pass through an entire dataset. This can be in random order. You an also batch your epoch so that you...
How to drop rows in a pandas dataframe
A previous tutorial showed you how to drop columns in a pandas dataframe. Now we will look at how to drop rows in a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
