Hello again, I am continuing responding to the questions that Brett, the fantastic reader of my books, sent a few weeks ago. I am pleased to confirm that he has found the response to his first… Read More »Reader Question — Virtual Environments p.1
In order to be on the same footing with my other books, I have prepared a video introducing “Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python”. The book provides an introduction to statistical concepts and is intended… Read More »Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python – Video
I am very excited to see the approved cover of my most recent book “Statistics and Data Visualisation with Python“. The use of a Jackalope continues to be a theme and in this case it… Read More »Stats and Data Viz – Book Cover
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