Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceTemplate your data science projects with cookiecutterEverybody has to performe repetitive tasks at work and in life. When it comes to data and analytics, it is possible that you might have…4 min read·Jul 4, 2019--1--1
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceHow to create interactive map plots with PlotlyOne of my favorite part of working with data is without a doubt creating visualizations. Images are the best tool to convey information…6 min read·Oct 17, 2018--9--9
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data SciencePython Pandas vs. Scala: how to handle dataframes (part II)A few days ago I published a post comparing the basic commands of Python and Scala: how to deal with lists and arrays, functions, loops…7 min read·Oct 15, 2018--3--3
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data SciencePython vs. Scala: a comparison of the basic commandsI recently started playing a little bit with Scala, and I have to say it has been kind of traumatic. I love learning new things but after…9 min read·Oct 11, 2018--22--22
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceHow to build a content-based movie recommender system with Natural Language ProcessingAt some point each one of us must have wondered where all the recommendations that Netflix, Amazon, Google give us, come from. We often…8 min read·Oct 1, 2018--20--20
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceAn engine that classifies the content of a Reddit post: an application of Natural Language…After my blog post about Natural Language Processing and Decision Trees, I thought it was a good idea to talk about a concrete application…7 min read·Sep 22, 2018--2--2
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceDecision Tree: an algorithm that works like the human brainDecision trees are one of the most popular algorithms used in machine learning, mostly for classification but also for regression problems…6 min read·Sep 10, 2018--5--5
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceHow machines understand our language: an introduction to Natural Language ProcessingNatural Language Processing is for me one of the most captivating fields of data science. The fact that a machine can understand the…5 min read·Sep 1, 2018--2--2
Emma GrimaldiinTowards Data ScienceWhat people are willing to pay for when buying a house in Ames, IowaThis is probably one of the most popular competitions on Kaggle to test your first machine learning models. You can download a big dataset…6 min read·Aug 24, 2018--2--2