Brent Tabor ButlerWorking with spatial data? Use hexes!There has been a plethora of research demonstrating the advantages using hexagonal cells for “meshed” or “raster” data (i.e. spatial data…Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Brent Tabor Butler3 COVID datasets you might not know about.Covid -19 has blown data science into the mainstream, with everyone and their brother’s-dog’s-pal getting into some amount of data…Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerParallelize your Sklearn model selection and save hours of time with this one line of code.When I was learning to train machine learning models I quickly learned that model selection can be a very time intensive process. Choosing…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerTips for using custom Python packages in Jupyter NotebooksThis tutorial will hopefully help you hide away all of your hard-on-the-eyes code in your clean, presentation/report style Jupyter…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerCreate custom Python modules and packagesThis tutorial assumes you are working in an Anaconda environment. For details on how to get started with Anaconda see my blog post here.Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerOSMNX Python package for accessing Open Street Map gets great new updatesOSMNX now has the built in ability to query more node types than just “amenities”Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerETL Google Distance Matrix APIGoogle’s Distance Matrix API is a great source of data readily available for your travel/map/gps app needs. It allows developers to…Jun 13, 2020Jun 13, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerHow Much Salt Do We Really Need?Machine learning applied to winter maintenance, a white paper summary.Jan 10, 2020Jan 10, 2020
Brent Tabor ButlerIntro to Time Series AnalysisA brief intro into using Pandas to manipulate and analyze data with a time componentDec 20, 2019Dec 20, 2019
Brent Tabor Butler“Pytorch?”Introductory exploration of the Pytorch deep learning framework from the perspective of a complete noviceDec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
