Kaggle NYC Taxi Trips Competition: Overview and Results
17 Oct 2017 Overview of Kaggle competition: New York City Taxi Trip Duration.
Read More ›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.
Read More ›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.
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.
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.
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.
Read More ›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.
Read More ›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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