Probabilistic Programming in Python

Learn about probabilistic programming in this guest post by Osvaldo Martin, a researcher at The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Bayesian Inference Bayesian statistics is conceptually very simple; we have the knowns and the unknowns; we use Bayes’ theorem to condition the latter on the former. If we are lucky, this process will reduce the uncertainty about the unknowns. […]

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Python Pandas Groupby Tutorial

In this Pandas group by we are going to learn how to organize Pandas dataframes by groups. More specifically, we are going to learn how to group by one and multiple columns. Furthermore, we are going to learn how calculate some basics summary statistics (e.g., mean, median), convert Pandas groupby to dataframe, calculate the percentage of […]

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Sending Emails With Python

You probably found this tutorial because you want to send emails using Python. Perhaps you want to receive email reminders from your code, send a confirmation email to users when they create an account, or send emails to members of your organization to remind them to pay their dues. Sending emails manually is a time-consuming […]

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Interactive Data Visualization in Python With Bokeh

Bokeh prides itself on being a library for interactive data visualization. Unlike popular counterparts in the Python visualization space, like Matplotlib and Seaborn, Bokeh renders its graphics using HTML and JavaScript. This makes it a great candidate for building web-based dashboards and applications. However, it’s an equally powerful tool for exploring and understanding your data […]

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Looking Towards the Future of Automated Machine-learning

I recently gave a presentation at Venture Cafe describing how I see automation changing python, machine-learning workflows in the near future. In this post, I highlight the presentation’s main points. You can find the slides here. From Ray Kurzweil’s excitement about a technological singularity to Elon Musk’s warnings about an A.I. Apocalypse, automated machine-learning evokes […]

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