Plannng a Linked-in Learning Course (and using the := walrus operator)

I've recorded two courses for LinkedIn Learning https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me

Let me emphasize that their production values take a lot of work. While I think I'm a pretty good live presenter, a few days in the recording booth with a producer, reveals all my weaknesses. so. um …

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A Reason for Avoiding Programming

From someone in the process of becoming a data scientist. They had a question on regular expressions, which made almost no sense. It appears that the core concepts of ETL -- Extracting source data, Transforming it into a useful form and the Loading into some persistent storage for long-term analysis -- had …

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Scipy.optimization.anneal Problems

Well, not really "problems" per se. More of a strange kind of whining than a solvable problem.
Here's the bottom line. Two real quotes. Unedited.
Me: "> There's a way to avoid the religious nature of the argument. "
Them: "Please suggest away."
Really. Confronted with choices between anneal and basin hopping …
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Building Probabilistic Graphical Models with Python

A deep dive into probability and scipy: https://www.packtpub.com/building-probabilistic-graphical-models-with-python/book I have to admit up front that this book is out of my league. The Python is sensible to me. The subject matter -- graph models, learning and inference -- is above my pay grade.

Asking About a Book …

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New Focus: Data Scientist

Read this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2014/06/26/the-hottest-jobs-in-it-training-tomorrows-data-scientists/ Interesting subject areas: Statistics, Machine Learning, Algorithms. I've had questions about data science from folks who (somehow) felt that calculus and differential equations were important parts of data science. I couldn't figure out how they decided that diffeq's …

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