So, you have a machine learning model! Congratulations! Now what? Well, as I always remind colleagues, there is no such thing as a perfect model, only good enough ones. Ensuring that your machine learning model… Read More »Building Robust Models with Cross-Validation
I am very pleased to announce that the final draft of my book “Statistics and Data Science with Python” has been completed. It has been a pleasure to write and use examples referencing some of… Read More »Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python – Final Draft
I received a notification that my “Data Science and Analytics with Python” book is now available in Chinese. Great news and 谢谢! You can take a look at the English versions (here and here) The Chinese version… Read More »Data Science and Analytics with Python – Now in Chinese
Surely you have heard of clustering as a way to help organising data into different groups depending on the features at hand. Clustering algorithms are part of unsupervised machine learning. In my post in the Domino… Read More »Getting started with k-means clustering in Python
If you are interested in getting some spellchecking capabilities in the markdown cells of your Jupyter notebook take a look at this repo. You can follow these instructions: Install Jupyter notebook extensions (nbextensions). This includes Spellchecker and… Read More »Spell check Jupyter Notebooks
I am posting this as an extended response to the quesiton that a medic friend of mine asked me the other day. The main question was whether learning Java or Python was best for getting… Read More »Programming First Steps: Java or Python?
As you know I am writing a new book. This time it is a book about statistics and data visualisation using Python as the main language to analyse data. It was thinking that I was… Read More »Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python – First Chapter Done
Right!!! It is early December and this post has been in the inkwell for a few months now. Earlier in the year I received the comments and suggestions from reviewers and the final approval from… Read More »Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python
I am reaching out as volume 2 of my data science book will be out for publication in May and my publisher has made it possible for me to offer 20% off. You can order the… Read More »Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python – Discount
Super excited to have received the proofread version of Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python. They all seem to be very straightforward corrections: a few missing commas, some italics here and there and capitalisation… Read More »Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python – Proofreading