Unless you’ve been living in cave somewhere in remote Eurasia, you should know that deep learning is very popular, and very powerful. A variety of tools from self driving cars to Chat GPT use deep learning; they complex neural networks with many hidden layers. In the modern Tech environment, it can be very valuable to … Read more
One of the the questions that I get over and over is, which data science language do I use? I have my own preferences with regards to programming languages, but there’s not always a clear answer. In fact, my standard answer is “it depends.” You see, different languages are good for different things. But what … Read more
Obviously, AI taken off in the last year in ways that were hard for most people to predict. AI went from being a somewhat niche technical subject that nerdy guys talked about on college campuses, to being so popular that Boomer parents and grandparents are saying that “AI will change everything.” And although I think … Read more
A couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post about how GPT writes bad Pandas code. If you’ve been reading at the blog for a while, you’ve probably realized that I have mixed feelings about AI code generators. On one hand, they can save you lots of time by writing large amounts of code … Read more
A few days ago, I was writing some code for a new machine learning course that I’m building, and I had a somewhat tricky problem to solve. As I’ve said in the past, Pandas code (and data manipulation more generally) is very important for machine learning. Not just for wrangling your data into the proper … Read more
AI is turning the tech world upside-down right now. With the release of large-language systems like Chat-GPT and various coding copilots, many people are questioning the value of a tech career. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that if you’re just a plain old software developer, AI might undercut your … Read more
I have a confession. I’m an American, and I was raised an American. But, I’ve been semi-nomadic for almost 10 years. A “digital nomad.” That is, I’ve lived in many countries around the world since about 2014 (although, I also lived a substantial amount of time in Austin, Texas during the last 10 years). I’m … Read more
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do some simple exploratory data analysis (EDA) for a machine learning project. In this tutorial, we’ll look at the Titanic dataset, which is commonly used in machine learning tutorials, and has previously been used as a Kaggle dataset. This tutorial will really only scratch the surface. There’s … Read more
For years, people have been talking about the era of “big data.” The data deluge. As early as 2010, The Economist wrote about how “quantity of information in the world is soaring.” Now 13 years later, businesses have still struggled to keep up with the volume of data. This has been great for the data … Read more
I’ll never forget what my manager said to me. “Do you need me to break down some doors? Do you need me to flip over some tables?” He was talking as if we were going to war. We’ll call him Taylor. He was my manager at one of my first data science jobs, at a … Read more