Building the basic intuition for receiver operating characteristics curve with Python — If you google: “ROC curve machine learning”, you get a Wikipedia answer like this: A receiver operating characteristic curve, or ROC curve, is a graphical plot that illustrates the diagnostic ability of a binary classifier system as its discrimination threshold is varied Another common description is that the ROC Curve…

Using the newly released Notion API and Streamlit to build a simple project tracker dashboard — With the recent release of the very much anticipated beta version of the Notion API, a lot of integrations between apps are now possible, and an entire universe of possibilities is now open for data science projects. In this post, I will show you how to build a simple…

A template for practicing data science with 6 simple steps — Practicing Data Science Developing a skill is much easier if we are able to streamline the process of practicing it. For me, improving my data science skills involves weekly and sometimes daily practice of the different aspects of doing data science work: data collection, data cleaning and preprocessing, data visualization, modelling and more.

A tagging system to organize your notes — Note Taking Systems and Tags Effective note-taking systems are a must for those interested in productive knowledge management systems. From Zetellkasten to the PARA system, there are many great options out there. I am periodically looking to improve my pipeline of knowledge management, and, upon testing multiple systems for note taking, I realized the…

Exporting and visualizing your data from Jira using Python — My current company uses a scrum system and the Jira software, which means keeping track of story points, issues, epics, and more. Although Jira provides a tone of features for visualizing your data, I wanted to see if I could plot my story points along different epics. …

From objects to behaviors with OOP using Python — How to manage complex programs with a bunch of data to manipulate, and a bunch of things to do?

Having only goals won’t work — When we set out to accomplish goals, we are often struck by a disconnect between that desire to accomplish certain things, and the practical ability to achieve them. One crucial point that may be at the center of this difficulty is the gap that exists between where we are and…

Advanced Google search techniques for machine learning — Searching on Google is one of the most important tasks in any development workflow. It’s the central skill for anyone looking to practice their coding skills in any development job, be it machine learning or otherwise. In this article, I want to share 9 tips for how to perform advanced…