It is harder than you think — Introduction In June 9, 2022 Google set a new world record for calculating the most number of digits of Pi — 100 TRILLION! This monumental achievement was possible using the y-cruncher program running on Google Cloud. It crunched numbers for a whopping 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds. …

Master these head-scratchers like never before — The title says it all — this is about the two hardest Pandas functions: pivot and melt. If Pandas functions were jungle animals, the two would be their king and queen with three heads and 37 sharp claws each. This article shows how to tame these beasts. As simple as…

It powers your success in ML like no other skill — An excerpt from my inbox: i need help from you as i came from a diverse background means i changed my field first i did BE in **** but then i switch to **** and machine which is new to me but i did it eventually now as by reading…

Master these head-scratchers like never before — Introduction While most Pandas expressions read like English, you sometimes face real head-scratchers. Yes, they have intuitive names like cut or pivot but they are seemingly impossible to wrap your head around. So, I decided to write a series of articles dedicated to what I think are the most difficult Pandas…

Avoid the most dangerous pitfall of histograms — Binning Bias, The Biggest Flaw of Histograms Histograms are probably the first plot you might have used as you embark on your journey as a data scientist. They are intuitive and easy plots to understand the shapes of distributions. However, as you progress through your journey, you will find that histograms are not so peachy. Histograms group…

Use Pandas the way it was intended to — Introduction “Great… another article on how to make Pandas n times faster.” I think I have said that countless times for the past three years I have been using Pandas. The most recent one I saw said, “make Pandas 71,803 times faster”. But I won’t give you that kind of promise…

No error messages — that’s what makes them subtle — Introduction We are all used to the big, fat, red error messages that frequently pop up while we code. Fortunately, people won’t spot it because we always fix those errors. But how about the mistakes that give no errors? These are the trickiest, but the pros could easily call them out. …

Transform and manipulate images at will with scikit-image — Introduction We are here on a sad business. Very sad, indeed. We are here to learn how to take beautiful, breathtaking images and turn them into a bunch of ugly little numbers so that they are more presentable to all those soulless, mindless machines. We will take animals and strip them…

Use Matplotlib like never before — I used to have a rule… When I was a beginner learning data visualization, I used to have a rule — never, ever visit the Matplotlib documentation. Nothing good ever came out of there. When I was on its pages, my eyes would process English words but, somehow, they were interpreted into my brain like I…