PinnedEmily StronginThe Data NerdBetter Python Programming for Data Scientists, Part 1: Python FundamentalsPython currently dominates as the most popular programming language for data scientists. Its ease of use and popular machine learning…Jul 16, 2022Jul 16, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdWhat is a support vector?Support vector machines are supervised machine learning models that are well-suited for high-dimensional data and still perform well when…Jul 20, 2022Jul 20, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdBetter Python Programming for Data Scientists, Part 4: Introduction to Object-Oriented ProgrammingI will never forget the day in grad school when a friend admitted she was completely stuck on a homework assignment for our intermediate…Jul 16, 2022Jul 16, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdStrategies for Imbalanced ClassesMany real-world problems involve imbalanced classes, but most classification algorithms don’t handle them well out of the box. Sometimes…Jul 15, 2022Jul 15, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdML Core Concepts: Precision and RecallAt every data science job interview I have ever had, from grad school internships to senior data scientist roles, I have been asked to…Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdBetter Python Programming for Data Scientists, Part 3: Data StructuresIn Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we explored Python fundamentals, including the built-in data types.Jul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdHomoscedasticity vs HeteroscedastcityHomoscedasticity is constant (or homogeneous) variance in a set of random variables. You may be wondering how it’s possible for variance to…Jul 2, 2022Jul 2, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdUnderstanding the Bias-Variance TradeoffThe Bias-Variance Tradeoff is a concept that is easy to skip over when first starting out in machine learning, and yet it’s one of the most…Jun 30, 2022Jun 30, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdBetter Python Programming for Data Scientists, Part 2: More Python FundamentalsIn Part 1 of this series, we started our dive into Python fundamentals by looking at the different Python implementations available and the…Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022
Emily StronginThe Data NerdAn Introduction to Uplift ModelingMarketing campaigns can be expensive. You want to contact only the people who you think will be persuaded to do whatever it is your…Jun 22, 2022Jun 22, 2022