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

Why Is Python the Language of Choice for Data Scientists?

Python Tools & Languagesposted by April Miller December 14, 2021

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

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

5 Reasons to Learn Python in 2021

Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by Alex Landa, ODSC September 14, 2021

You never hear about data science without hearing about Python as well, and for good reason as it’s the most common language for data scientists. In fact, 69% of data scientists report using Python, compared to 24% using R. This doesn’t mean Python is superior in... Read more

Develop and Deploy a Machine Learning Pipeline in 45 Minutes with Ploomber

Machine Learning Modeling Python West 2021posted by ODSC Community August 10, 2021

It’s standard industry practice to prototype Machine Learning pipelines in Jupyter notebooks, refactor them into Python modules and then deploy using production tools such as Airflow or Kubernetes. However, this process slows down development as it requires significant changes to the code. Ploomber enables a leaner... Read more

Decoupling Complex Systems with Event Driven Python Programming

Guest contributor Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community July 2, 2021

We often think about events as ordered points in time that happen one after another, often with some kind of cause-effect relationship. But, in programming, events are often understood a bit differently. They are not necessarily “things that happen.” Events in programming are more often understood... Read more

Correlation Analysis 101 in Python

Modeling Python Correlationposted by ODSC Community June 19, 2021

Hello everyone! Do you realize it’s spring already? I’m almost ready to celebrate the holiday of flowers, but first: another data analysis practice for you today that will make your life easier (or at least more interesting, hopefully). Do you ever receive questions like: – Does... Read more

Why Learn Python for Data Processing

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Modeling Python Data Processing Europe 2021posted by ODSC Community May 31, 2021

Python is one of the most popular languages in the world. It’s used in a lot of different fields, like web services, automation, data science, managing computer infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its readable and concise syntax makes it a great option for teaching... Read more

How to Pivot and Plot Data With Pandas

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Visualization Modeling Python Europe 2021 Pandasposted by ODSC Community May 27, 2021

A big challenge of working with data is manipulating its format for the analysis at hand. To make things a bit more difficult, the “proper format” can depend on what you are trying to analyze, meaning we have to know how to melt, pivot, and transpose... Read more