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

General Tips for Web Scraping with Python

Python Tools & Languages Data Miningposted by Jack Schultz December 6, 2017

The great majority of the projects about machine learning or data analysis I write about here on Bigish-Data have an initial step of scraping data from websites. And since I get a bunch of contact emails asking me to give them either the data I’ve scraped myself, or... Read more

2017 ODSC West Data Science Award: pandas

Conferences Python Tools & Languages Open Sourceposted by ODSC Team November 15, 2017

The ODSC team was delighted to present the second Outstanding Data Science Project Award to ‘Pandas’ at ODSC West on November 3rd. Why ODSC is gives these awards… Most data scientists/developers use an open source language, tool, software or platform daily. All of these resources... Read more

The Incredible Growth of Python

Python Tools & Languagesposted by Dave Robinson September 12, 2017

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the growth of Python... Read more

What’s new in PyMC3 3.1

Blog Python Tools & Languagesposted by Thomas Wiecki, PhD July 17, 2017

Thomas originally posted this article here at http://twiecki.github.io We recently released PyMC3 3.1 after the first stable 3.0 release in January 2017. You can update either via pip install pymc3 or via conda install -c conda-forge pymc3. A lot is happening in PyMC3-land. One thing I am particularily proud of is the developer... Read more

2 Ways to Implement Multinomial Logistic Regression in Python

Blog Modeling Python classification|Python|Regressionposted by Saimadhu Polamuri July 2, 2017

Logistic regression is one of the most popular supervised classification algorithm. This classification algorithm mostly used for solving binary classification problems. People follow the myth that logistic regression is only useful for the binary classification problems. Which is not true. Logistic regression algorithm can also use to solve the multi-classification... Read more

What is knyfe?

Blog Python Intro|Pythonposted by Manuel Ebert June 17, 2017

Knyfe is a python utility for rapid exploration of datasets. Use it when you have some kind of dataset and you want to get a feel for how it is composed, run some simple tests on it, or prepare it for further processing. The great thing... Read more

Another batch of Think Stats notebooks

Blog Python Statisticsposted by Allen Downey June 15, 2017

Getting ready to teach Data Science in the spring, I am going back through Think Stats and updating the Jupyter notebooks. When I am done, each chapter will have a notebook that shows the examples from the book along with some small exercises, with more substantial... Read more

General Tips for Web Scraping with Python

Blog Pythonposted by Jack Schultz June 7, 2017

Regular Expression & Treemaps to Visualize Emergency Department Visits

Blog Data Visualization Modeling Pythonposted by Eugene Joh June 6, 2017

It’s been a while since my last post on some TB WHO data. A lot has happened since then, including the opportunity to attend the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) East held in Boston, MA. Over a two day period I had the opportunity to listen to a... Read more

Python as a way of thinking

Blog Python Pythonposted by Allen Downey May 21, 2017

This article contains supporting material for this blog post at Scientific American. The thesis of the post is that modern programming languages (like Python) are qualitatively different from the first generation (like FORTRAN and C), in ways that make them effective tools for teaching, learning, exploring, and... Read more