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Peter Grant Peter Grant
Updated on October 24, 2022

How to Speed Up Your Pandas Code by 10x

OK, actually just get out of Pandas. Try NumPy, instead.

Kerry Halladay Kerry Halladay
Updated on October 24, 2022

14 Conferences for Data Science Professionals (in Person and Virtual)

Whether you're looking to network or learn new skills, there’s something for everyone at these conferences.

Kurtis Pykes Kurtis Pykes
Updated on October 19, 2022

Cohen’s Kappa Explained

Cohen’s kappa is a quantitative measure of reliability for two raters that are evaluating the same thing. Here’s what you need to know and how to calculate it.

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Giorgos Myrianthous Giorgos Myrianthous
Updated on October 19, 2022

16 Bash Commands Data Scientists Must Know

Bash commands are an important part of the data scientist’s toolkit. This guide introduces you to some of the most important ones.

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Parag Radke Parag Radke
Updated on October 14, 2022

Basic Probability Theory and Statistics Terms to Know

Probability statistics measures the likelihood of an event happening. Here are the theories and statistics you need to know for machine learning.

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Nikola Ilic Nikola Ilic
Updated on October 05, 2022

Important Power BI Formulas for Dynamic Filters to Know

Dynamic filtering in Power BI allow users to filter data without buttons or bookmarks. Here are the formulas you need to know.

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Andrew Plummer Andrew Plummer
Updated on October 04, 2022

Box-Cox Transformation and Target Variable: Explained

Box-Cox transformation is a statistical technique that transforms your target variable so that it resembles a normal distribution. Here’s how to implement it in Python.

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Esmaeil Alizadeh Esmaeil Alizadeh
Updated on October 03, 2022

An Introduction to Dynamic Time Warping

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a technique used to compare two, temporal sequences that don’t perfectly sync up through mathematics. Here’s how it works. 

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Susan Maina Susan Maina
Updated on September 30, 2022

Can You Put a For Loop in an If Statement? 

For loops complete an iterative action for a defined number of elements, while if statements test a condition and then complete an action. Here’s how to combine them.

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Luuk Derksen Luuk Derksen
Updated on September 28, 2022

Using T-SNE in Python to Visualize High-Dimensional Data Sets

T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a technique that helps users visualize high-dimensional data sets. Here’s how to apply it.  

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