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....
Data Wrangling Part 2: Cleaning up Ohio Crime Data for Machine Learning
In a previous post, I discuss cleaning public Ohio crime data. As I start to get deeper into the data, and go through years...
How to convert Google Colabs from Python 2 to Python 3
I don't know why Google Colabs defaults to Python 2, regardless, it's extremely easy to change your notebook to Python 3. It's so easy...
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 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...
How to run notebook in Google Cloud for Machine Learning
Step one: Go to Google Cloud Platform and create a Project.
Step two: Click Activate Cloud Shell
Step three: In the console you will want to...
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...
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...
How to run iPython notebook online for Machine Learning projects
Recently Google had a Kaggle image contest with test and train image dataset files that were well over a TB in size. My Macbook...
