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Kaggle NYC Taxi Trips Competition: Overview and Results

17 Oct 2017   Overview of Kaggle competition: New York City Taxi Trip Duration.

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Python on Jupyter notebooks: Reference for Common Use Cases

16 Oct 2017   Getting more done with Jupyter notebook, with useful shortcuts and commonly-used functionality.

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pandas groupby

Pandas DataFrame: GroupBy Examples

11 Oct 2017   Examples of specific ways to do what you want using groupby on Pandas Dataframes.

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Scaling Data Teams

09 Oct 2017   Needs of data teams are mostly around data access and sharing; Columnar databases are often more efficient for analytics; MS Excel is useful at many scales; Stakeholder communication is important to make your work more relevant; Use metrics to get to know how data products are being used.

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Matplotlib: Pyplot By Example

05 Oct 2017   Examples for common operations on PyPlot, like changing figure size, changing title and tick sizes, changing legends, etc.

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Paper Summary: WSABIE: Scaling Up To Large Vocabulary Image Annotation

05 Oct 2017   Summary of the 2011 article "WSABIE: Scaling Up To Large Vocabulary Image Annotation" by Weston et al.

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Paper Summary: Recursive Neural Language Architecture for Tag Prediction

05 Oct 2017   Summary of the 2016 article "Recursive Neural Language Architecture for Tag Prediction" by Kataria.

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monetization

Thoughts on App Monetization with Examples from Popular Apps

05 Oct 2017   A couple of thoughts on what approaches seem to work best when optimizing monetization on web/mobile apps. Tips include: Focus on the First Purchase, Mix Free and Paid Features on the same interface, Give away freebies consistently.

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python parallel

Parallel For Loops in Python: Examples with Joblib

02 Oct 2017   Joblib.Parallel is a simple way to spread your for loops across multiple cores, for parallel execution.

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How to Make Gif Animations from Screencasts on Ubuntu

01 Oct 2017   To make short gif-videos on Ubuntu, you can use Kazam for the Screencasts and then Gifify to turn those videos into gif animations.

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