Conda, Pip, Virtualenv and Pyenv: Commands Compared
16 Sep 2019 Equivalent commands for conda on the one hand and pip plus virtualenv on the other.
Read More ›GNU Gzip examples
15 Sep 2019 Examples on how to perform simple tasks using the gzip command (along with sister commands such as gunzip and zcat).
Read More ›Python Open File: Reference and Examples
15 Sep 2019 Quick reference for how to open files in Python, encodings, modes, etc.
Read More ›People Skills for Data Science Projects: Lessons Learned
14 Sep 2019 See a project go from start to finish, know how to create value with data science and machine learning.
Read More ›Python 3 String Operations
11 Sep 2019 Common operations you will need to do on python strings, within the context of Natural Language Processing (NLP) or otherwise.
Read More ›Paper Summary: Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners
31 Aug 2019 Summary of the 2019 article "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners" by Radford et al. AKA the GPT-2 Article.
Spark Dataframe Examples: Window Functions
22 Aug 2019 Examples on how to do common operations using window functions in apache spark dataframes. Examples using the Spark Scala API.
Read More ›Pandas Indexing Examples: Accessing and Setting Values on DataFrames
21 Aug 2019 Some common ways to access rows in a pandas dataframe, includes label-based (loc) and position-based (iloc) accessing.
Read More ›Spark Dataframe Examples: Pivot and Unpivot Data
10 Aug 2019 Pivoting and unpivoting are very commonly-used data transformation operations. Use them when you want to switch from a row-based to a column-based view and vice-versa.
Read More ›Jupyter Notebook Kernels: How to Add, Change, Remove
28 Jul 2019 Add, remove and change Kernels to use with Jupyter notebook
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