Resources for keeping your coding skills sharp I think as a tech person I like to think the learning process can be represented by an exponential curve—getting started in a skill requires a lot of groundwork, but eventually it starts to pay off. What was difficult becomes routine, competency becomes…

Streamline your model optimization by combining these two powerful modules If you’ve successfully built data models using Python and SciKit Learn, and you aren’t leveraging Pipelines and GridSearch, then I’m about to CHANGE YOUR LIFE! …Or at least that’s what I’d say if this were a clickbait article… But really…

A look at how personal bias, statistical pitfalls, and intellectual dishonesty can affect data analysis — Over the past decade, powerful new tools have empowered organizations to gather and analyze data at much lower cost—enabling previously unimaginable power when it comes to predicting outcomes and behaviors. Given the availability of granular data and raw computing power accessible to us, data professionals are able to create powerful…

A beginner’s guide to Python object comprehensions and protecting your home from a Joe Pesci-type burglar — As you undoubtedly remember from my last article on the subject, list comprehensions allow for more dynamic, readable, and efficient list creation. However, there is far more to a comprehension than just putting items in a list from an existing iterable. We can make more powerful comprehensions by using conditional…

“Wow, how did I end up here? I just wanted to find a simple explanation of what the heck a list comprehension is and now I’ve read 10 articles that are all incredibly complicated and I still don’t get why I shouldn’t just use a for loop.” …