Tag: Learn Python

Dataquest’s Philosophy: Building the Perfect Data Science Learning Tool

Learn how Dataquest’s philosophy sets our platform apart from other data science learning tools, and what we’ve learned from years of teaching data science.

Python Machine Learning Tutorial: Predicting Airbnb Prices

Learn about machine learning in Python and build your very first ML model from scratch to predict Airbnb prices using k-nearest neighbors.

Data Cleaning and Preparation for Machine Learning

Learn data cleaning for a machine learning project by cleaning and preparing loan data from LendingClub for a predictive analytics project.

Tutorial: Find Dominant Colors in an Image through Clustering

Take the first step into image analysis in Python by using k-means clustering to analyze the dominant colors in an image in this free data science tutorial.

Tutorial: Advanced Jupyter Notebooks

you’re doing data science in Python, notebooks are a powerful tool. This free Jupyter Notebooks tutorial has will help you get the best out of Jupyter.

An Intro to Deep Learning in Python

Deep learning is a type of machine learning that’s growing at an almost frightening pace. Nearly every projection has the deep learning industry expanding massively over the next decade. This market research report, for example, expects deep learning to grow 71x in the US and more than that globally over the next ten years. There’s […]

Python Dictionary Tutorial: Analyze Craft Beer with Dictionaries

Learn to use Python dictionaries to store, sort, and access data in this in-depth tutorial analyzing craft beer data to master dictionary techniques.

Tutorial: Understanding Regression Error Metrics in Python

Error metrics are short and useful summaries of the quality of our data. We dive into four common regression metrics and discuss their use cases.

Top 20 Python AI and Machine Learning Open Source Projects

Getting into Machine Learning and AI is not an easy task, but is a critical part of data science programs. Many aspiring professionals and enthusiasts find it hard to establish a proper path into the field, given the enormous amount of resources available today. The field is evolving constantly and it is crucial that we […]

Tutorial: Basic Statistics in Python — Descriptive Statistics

Learn how to do descriptive statistics in Python with this in-depth tutorial that covers the basics (mean, median, and mode) and more advanced topics.

Python Generators

Python generators are a powerful, but misunderstood tool. They’re often treated as too difficult a concept for beginning programmers to learn — creating the illusion that beginners should hold off on learning generators until they are ready. I think this assessment is unfair, and that you can use generators sooner than you think. In this […]

Programming Best Practices For Data Science

The data science life cycle is generally comprised of the following components: data retrieval data cleaning data exploration and visualization statistical or predictive modeling While these components are helpful for understanding the different phases, they don’t help us think about our programming workflow. Often, the entire data science life cycle ends up as an arbitrary […]

Data Retrieval and Cleaning: Tracking Migratory Patterns

Advancing your skills is an important part of being a data scientist. When starting out, you mostly focus on learning a programming language, proper use of third party tools, displaying visualizations, and the theoretical understanding of statistical algorithms. The next step is to test your skills on more difficult data sets. Sometimes these data sets […]

Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python

In this tutorial, we’ll recreate Ed Hawkins’ climate spirals in Python using pandas and matplotlib.

Regex Cheat Sheet: A Quick Guide to Regular Expressions in Python

Keep this PDF Python cheat sheet nearby anytime you need to use regular expressions for your data science work, as a quick, handy reference.