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Elote: a python package of rating systems
Introducing Elote, a Python package implementing various rating systems like Elo and Glicko. Learn its core concepts and see how to use it for ranking.
Ripyr: sampled metrics on datasets using python's asyncio
An introduction to ripyr, a Python library for streaming through large datasets and parsing basic metrics using asyncio and type hinting
Category Encoders v1.2.5 Release
Category Encoders v1.2.5 brings community updates including stable binary/BaseN encoding, new leave-one-out encoding, and pandas compatibility fixes.
Standing Peachtree Park
Visit Standing Peachtree Park, an Atlanta site at the meeting of Peachtree Creek and Chattahoochee River, marking one of the city's earliest settlements.
Data Science Things Roundup #11
A collection of interesting data science articles and projects, including SEC keynotes, Bayesian inference, and visualization tools
Modernizing Pedalwrencher: Whatever That Means
Migrating the pedal wrencher Flask app from Heroku plus an EC2 cron box to a Dockerized AWS ECS deployment with RDS, Route 53, and CloudWatch alerts.
git-pandas Caching: Faster Analysis
Boost git repository analysis speed! Learn how git-pandas now uses caching to dramatically improve performance for repeated queries on large codebases.
Category Encoders v1.2.4 Release
Category Encoders v1.2.4 is out! Includes pandas categorical type support, improved missing value handling, better error messages, BaseN fixes, and docs.
Data Science Things Roundup #10
A curated collection of data science articles and tools exploring network analysis, StashPy for log processing, and Bayesian survival analysis techniques.
Data Science Things Roundup #9
Data Science Things Roundup #9: Highlighting Pedro Domingos'' ML paper, Spyre (Shiny for Python), and BetaGo, an AlphaGo-inspired Go bot framework.