Published in The Startup·PinnedBeautiful Pythonic RefactoringLately, I’ve been coding with Python and building my own small programs and utilities. After building a successful simple timer and calculator I got to wondering, “is my code in the simplest most efficient state it can be?”. How does it translate when being read or used by other people…Refactoring5 min read
Published in The Startup·PinnedUnderstanding NumPy — ArraysGetting any kind of start in Data Science is likely to lead you into the world of NumPy. NumPy is designed to work extremely well with numbers and allow mathematical operations on such data. It has its own data structure — arrays that make working with homogenous data (data of…Numpy7 min read
Published in The Startup·PinnedExtracting Feature Importances from a Classifier ModelHow feature importances aid your classification projects — During the final weeks of my Flatiron Data Science Bootcamp, I worked on a classification machine learning project with a colleague. We experimented with a few different models learning to optimise the hyperparameters and output their predictions. We settled, finally, on a Random Forest ensemble model. …Data Science4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·PinnedHello, User! — Executables and Your EnvironmentI decided enough is enough and I went on a journey to learn about environment variables and came out with much more. I've been uneasy about my know-how around environment variables. $PATH, $HOME, $USER come up from time to time. I decided enough is enough and I went on a…Executable7 min read
Published in Analytics Vidhya·Nov 1, 2020Permutations and FactorialsLearning to use the permutation formula set for data science. How many different permutations of the coloured squares on the face of the Rubiks cube above can there be? In data science, it can be important to work out the possible permutations in a dataset for specific entities. …Permutations5 min read
Oct 23, 2020Harnessing Recursion to Retrieve all Reviews.A Google My Business Example with Python Learning the Google Cloud API and Google My Business (GMB) framework was not straightforward. I had to go to many different sources and ask many questions along the way. …Recursive Function5 min read
Published in Analytics Vidhya·Oct 17, 2020Scanning for memory issues in your data pipelines$ pip install filprofiler %load_ext filprofiler # use the python fil kernel %%filprofile # run this in the cell you wish to evaluate “the resulting sudden system failures, blue screens, and downtime were increasingly unacceptable in this day and age.” I took some time to learn about how python handles…Memory Management4 min read
Published in The Startup·Oct 11, 2020Using Google Cloud Platform and Google My Business API to Obtain Location ReviewsGET https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts/{accountId}/locations/{locationId}/reviews I began my journey into obtaining google reviews last week and was surprised to find that it wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be. I write this article to help others who wish to obtain google review data (and other data related to location). …4 min read
Oct 4, 2020Natural Language Processing in 3 lines of code? — videoIntroduction to the Transformer Library for Advanced NLP [1]: from transformers import pipeline [2]: nlp = pipeline("sentiment-analysis") [3]: result = nlp("Lovely atmosphere, staff are super friendly and wonderful people.")[0] [4]: print(f"label: {result['label']}, with score: {round(result['score'], 4)}") I asked my Bootcamp cohort fellow “I want to do sentiment analysis on reviews…Naturallanguageprocessing2 min read
Sep 11, 2020Build a Simple Tracker Program Using Python and SQL — VideoHello everyone, I’ve been meaning to dive deeper into SQL. So I thought of a fun build idea that could use Python and SQL to keep track of materials in my favorite old school game Phantasy Star Online. Welcome to Simple Python Programs — Simple TrackerVideo Tutorial3 min read
