Machine Learning Algorithms for beginners
Below are some basics on machine learning algorithms. This is for beginners who are trying to get a better understanding about machine learning and...
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 I wrote a terrible machine learning Nirvana song
We all see articles on how this is successful or that is successful and we get to brag about our successes. But what about...
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 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...
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 the difference between data science vs data analytics?
Perhaps you are at the beginning of your career or making a change in your career and want to know the difference between data...
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 import data into Python to run Machine Learning projects
One of the most important aspects of running any machine learning program is the ability to pull in data from various sources and of...
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....














