Author: shotlefttodatascience
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NaN values in Pandas .map()
An Excel-related conundrum Yesterday was a perfect example of how you don’t really know anything until you start trying to apply your knowledge. My day job has gazillions of occasions where I vlookup thing1 against thing2 to join spreadsheet data so I’ve been trying to do this in pandas rather than Excel, just for practice……
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Bayes theorem – a worked example
So I found this quite a mind-bender, although I believe this is part and parcel of the typical high-school maths syllabus now! Here is my stab at understanding the theorem and how it relates to a real-life example… Problem wording: Jane witnessed a robbery in which a car was involved. It is known that 1…
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Need a “pick-me-up”?
Listen to a superdatascience podcast with Kirill Eremenko – data science motivation at its best 🙂
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Oops! I took a sho’t left!
My journey began in March 2016 as I sat on my couch at home pondering the bizarre fact that data science seemed like a good fit with the skills I love to use AND a career that might become a passion, rather than just a job… “Nonsense!” I told myself as I flipped through Udemy…
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Calculus made easy (really)
For some reason I didn’t expect someone writing in 1910 to have such a wonderful sense of humour – most books from this time seemed…
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The “Nigel Molesworth” method
When I was growing up my Dad was my best mathematics tutor! I would come home from school feeling rather…
Sho't left to data science 