Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceBinning Records on a Continuous Variable with Pandas Cut and QCutWhen, why, and how to transform a numeric feature into a categorical feature·7 min read·Sep 29, 2021----
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceMapping Census DataHow to access and map population data in Python·7 min read·Sep 19, 2020----
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceSearching or Sorting a list of Objects Based on an Attribute in PythonWhen you want to find which (dog) student works well with the highest number of other (dog) students·6 min read·Apr 29, 2020----
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceChanging the Frequency (Precision) of Time Data in PandasUsing Pandas’ resample() method to adjust time features·2 min read·Mar 6, 2020--1--1
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceExtracting data from semi-structured tweets using Pandas and regexUsing Series string functions and regex to extract numeric data from text·4 min read·Feb 29, 2020--1--1
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceUsing ColumnTransformer to combine data processing stepsCreate cohesive pipelines for processing data where different columns require different techniques·6 min read·Feb 22, 2020--3--3
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceCreating Beautiful Sankey Diagrams with floWeaverStepping up your Sankey game in Python·7 min read·Feb 15, 2020----
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceHow to Split ShapefilesCutting the western Aleutian Islands off Alaska (they’re mostly uninhabited)·8 min read·Feb 7, 2020--1--1
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceNatural Language Processing with PySpark and Spark-NLPDiving in to the text of Financial Services Consumer Complaints·6 min read·Feb 5, 2020--2--2
Allison StaffordinTowards Data ScienceData Prep with Spark DataFramesUsing PySpark to continue investigating the Financial Services Consumer Complaint Database·6 min read·Jan 25, 2020--3--3