My wife and I got three backyard chickens a few months ago. There was a lot of setup work initially, but we eventually settled into a routine that didn’t require much daily work. One pain point was waking up early... [Read More]

Millions of people use the Python library Pandas to wrangle and analyze data. I, being one of those users, noticed a few months ago something peculiar: accessing rows by an index reference through .loc can be significantly slower when using... [Read More]

ServeIt is an open source library that lets you easily serve model predictions and supplementary information from a RESTful API on any domain using your favorite Python ML library. This post illustrates the process of deploying a pre-trained ImageNet classifier... [Read More]

Web scraping is frequently used when no suitable public data can be found in a structured format. Unstructured or semi-structured data served on static websites or web applications can be scraped programmatically and structured for analysis. But before reaching for... [Read More]

Kaggle is a popular online platform for data science competitions. Competition hosts can post their data online, and data scientist from around the world compete to build the best algorithm for the host’s needs. [Read More]