Python for Data Science: ODSC Guides, Tutorials, and Articles

Hopsworks 3.0: The Python-Centric Feature Store

Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community July 28, 2022

Feature stores began in the world of Big Data, with Spark being the feature engineering platform for Michelangelo (the first feature store) and Hopsworks (the first open-source feature store). Nowadays, the modern data stack has assumed the role of Spark for feature stores – feature engineering... Read more

Embedding Interactive Python Plots on the Web

Data Visualization Modeling Pythonposted by ODSC Community June 28, 2022

One of the most important steps in the Data Science pipeline is Data Visualization. In fact, thanks to Data Visualization, Data Scientists can be able to quickly gather insights about the data they have available and any possible anomaly. Traditionally, Data Visualization consisted of creating static... Read more

Top 9 Most Essential Python Libraries For Beginners

Modeling Python Tools & Languages matplotlib numpy OpenCV Pandas Scikit-Learn TensorFlowposted by April Miller June 27, 2022

People worldwide know Python as the most used programming language to date. Major tech companies like Google, Amazon, Meta, Instagram, and Uber use Python for various applications. From web development to machine learning projects, Python is an essential tool in a data scientist’s kit. Many understand... Read more

Why Is Python the Language of Choice for Data Scientists?

Python Tools & Languagesposted by April Miller March 7, 2022

Python has grown to become one of the most popular and well-liked programming languages in the world, used by millions of developers since its creation in 1991. For data scientists in particular, Python has a strong, long-time base of developers. Why is Python the language of... Read more

PyCharm vs. VSCode: Which Is the Better Python IDE?

Python Tools & Languages PyCharm VSCodeposted by April Miller March 3, 2022

Python first debuted in 1991, making it older than many of the people who use it. In the intervening years, coders have turned it into one of the most popular programming languages ever conceived. The reasons for Python’s perennial popularity come down to three major features.... Read more

Supercharge Your Pandas Code with Apache Spark

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Modeling Python Apache Spark East 2022 Pandas Sparkposted by ODSC Community February 28, 2022

Editor’s Note: Itai Yaffe and Daniel Haviv are speakers for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out their talk, “A bamboo of Pandas: crossing Pandas’ single-machine barrier with Apache Spark,” there! Pandas is a fast and powerful open-source data analysis and manipulation framework written in... Read more

3 Easy Tricks to Create New Columns in Python Pandas

Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community February 9, 2022

In data processing & cleaning, we need to create new columns based on values in existing columns. In this blog, I explain How to create new columns derived from existing columns” with 3 simple methods. · Use lambda Function with apply() method · Use numpy.select() method... Read more

SAS Opens its Code Editor Interface to Python Users

Guest contributor Python Tools & Languages SAS SAS Blogsposted by ODSC Community November 9, 2021

Data science teams are multidisciplinary, each with different skills and technologies of choice. Some of them use SAS, others may have analytical assets already built in Python or R. Let’s just say each team is unique. As part of our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery with monthly releases,... Read more

6 Trending Python Machine Learning Packages on PyPI

Machine Learning Modeling Python Tools & Languages Keras mxnet ONNX PyTorch Scikit-Learn TensorFlowposted by ODSC Team September 28, 2021

As the most popular programming language for data science, Python packages, frameworks, and libraries are pulled by the millions each month. Month-to-month, Python packages reflect growing trends in the field of data science; as NLP is talked about more often, so will we see more packages... Read more

Handling Exceptions in Python Object-Oriented Programming

Guest contributor Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community September 15, 2021

Systems built with software can be fragile. While the software is highly predictable, the runtime context can provide unexpected inputs and situations. Devices fail, networks are unreliable, mere anarchy is loosed on our application. We need to have a way to work around the spectrum of... Read more