Introduction Over the past while with my time on LinkedIn, I got to have exposure to many people from many different lines of work. I also managed to have carved a space for myself there where I can post about Data Science topics and share my blogs along the way. There have always been posts… Continue reading RvsPython #6: LinkedIn has spoken!
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PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
Whats great about Blogging and social media is that you get to learn so much if you use it right. After sharing my last blog on LinkedIn, Casper Crause told me about the siuba module created by Michael Chow from which allows Python users experience to using R’s powerful dplyr package (developed by Hadley Wickham)… Continue reading PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
RvsPython #5.1: Making the Game even with Python’s Best Practices
Well, it turns out that my last blog that R was over 220 times faster than Python got a lot of (constructive) criticism saying that I wasn’t using “best practices” with Python, which was why my Python code was so slow. This is a totally acceptable critique; thus, I’ve decided to write a follow up… Continue reading RvsPython #5.1: Making the Game even with Python’s Best Practices
RvsPython #5: Using Monte Carlo To Simulate π
Please note: This blog has got alot of criticism as to the lack of best practices being used in the Python code. I have written a follow up to this issue here. Let me know what you think! Introduction The number , while being an irrational and transcendental number is a central number to which… Continue reading RvsPython #5: Using Monte Carlo To Simulate π
RvsPython #2: Pivoting Data From Long to Wide Form
Note: This is an older post originally written as a LinkedIn article I wrote in late May. I have added information about shaping data thanks to Casper Crause using the data.table library. You can see our original correspondence in the comments there (for now) If you dabble in data, you know one of the challenges… Continue reading RvsPython #2: Pivoting Data From Long to Wide Form