How to fail and still succeed – a little data science fun
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....
Set up the best parameters for Deep Learning RNN with Grid Search
Most of the time I've spent on Kaggle contests have been hyperparameter optimization. It's a major part of deep learning and fine tuning if...
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...
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...
What is Conditional Probability and formula?
Conditional probability is used to find out the probability of some event happening given that some other event has happened. Easy right?
Therefore, conditional probability...
Machine Learning NFL: My rule changes for punts
The NFL has created a competition in an attempt to reduce concussions on punt plays. Read more about the competition in my previous post....
How to select the best model from multiple machine learning algorithms
There are many ways to figure out which machine learning algorithm is the best for your dataset. One, you can just pick one and...
Genetic Programming is an awesome way to tackle machine learning problems
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...
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 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...














