AleAlejandro1Tell me who you hang out and I’ll tell you who you are : K-Nearest NeighborsK-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is one of those examples of how stereotypes tend to be true, but not always. If you think about what the…Oct 29, 2021Oct 29, 2021
AleAlejandro1Machine Learning when you are not popular: The problem with class imbalanceSupervised learning methods like Logistic Regression are very good at learning what’s on the data and repeating the pattern. This makes job…Oct 14, 20211Oct 14, 20211
AleAlejandro1When your target is a category, your ‘regression’ is not a regressionThere is a lot of understanding for the ordinary least square method to find a line (intersect and slope) that can fit some data points as…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
AleAlejandro1Coefficient of Determination : negative R-squared and residualsAll models are wrong, but some are useful.Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021
AleAlejandro1The problem with referencing when you think you are copyingHere’s the deal, many times I need to create some sample data structures (e.g. lists) to see if my functions are doing what I want…Sep 13, 2021Sep 13, 2021
AleAlejandro1API drama with book publishingAs I experiment with little bits of capability in Python for Data Science, I find little bits of ‘good to know’ stuff I want to share. In…Sep 6, 2021Sep 6, 2021
AleAlejandro1APIs : the superpower you didn’t know you hadI would have to say that my favorite part of using an API is just having to write a couple lines and leverage on the large amounts of code…Aug 25, 2021Aug 25, 2021
AleAlejandro1Read the docs: Python string methodsHello, 1st post here in medium, great idea. Allow me to cut to the chase.Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021