by yoursdata | May 22, 2020
Web scraping is one of the most important tools in collecting data for data science projects. Python (Selenium & BeautifulSoup) can be very useful in scrapping websites. I was looking to code one project to practice web-scrapping & data visualizations. The aim...
by yoursdata | Dec 7, 2019
The sigmoid function is one of the most commonly used neural activations functions. Also, it is used in logistics regression. The advantage of using sigmoid function is that instead of giving discrete values i.e. 0 and 1 it gives a continuous value between 0 and 1....
by yoursdata | Nov 26, 2019
A virtual environment is an isolated copy of your environment that maintains its own version of the language, packages, and versions. It can help in avoiding version conflicts and dependency issues among projects. Anaconda provides a convenient way to manage packages...
by yoursdata | Sep 19, 2018
Data exploration and manipulation is the basic building block for data science. We cannot do this without making selections in our table. At first, it was very confusing and took some time for me to get hang of making selections in Pandas DataFrame. Pandas provided...
by yoursdata | Sep 2, 2018
In one of my post, I had written about installing Jupyter Lab and configuring it. If you haven’t installed it yet, you can check this post for the information. I have been using these Jupyter lab shortcuts and magic functions in my day to day work and have...
by yoursdata | Jul 10, 2018
When the world cup started, I got curious about teams and their FIFA World Ranking. I also wanted to see how the ranks of different countries have been throughout the history. This ranking was introduced in December 1992 and a point based system is used for this....
by yoursdata | May 20, 2018
Jupyter lab is an interactive development environment and the way forward for people using Jupyter notebook. It has become one of the most preferred ways to code in data science field and academia. Notebook cell-based structure was very convenient for doing data...
by yoursdata | Mar 5, 2018
In the last post (Beginner’s Guide to Python Regular Expression), we learnt about python regular expression. If you don’t know the basic syntax and structure of it, then it will be better to read the mentioned post. If you know, then let’s...
by yoursdata | Mar 2, 2018
Python regular expression is one of the most difficult concepts for the beginners to wrap their heads around. It needs some practice to master it and can be very confusing in the beginning. But once mastered, it is a very handy toolto have and can be used in a...
by yoursdata | Feb 19, 2018
Python has a unique data type known as dictionary or python dictionary. It provides a very easy and flexible way to store and organize values. In essence, it is like a list as it can also store multiple values. There are two major difference between list and python...