Alexander Pope is famously quoted as saying: A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. I've been thinking about these words the past few days as I worked on my latest challenge: a text classifier using... Continue Reading →
The joys of real world data... I received a file today with building floors: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, all the way to 22nd... Regular sorting quickly got me nowhere, with results that started 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 1st, 22nd, etc. This led to my discovery of the most marvellous natsort... Continue Reading →
A Pandas series can have more than one index value. I discovered this fact during the week when I found the .groupby() method which was going to be very useful to me in getting a count of values. I started with data similar to this and my objective was to get a summary of numbers... Continue Reading →
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 