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• CyberLaunch: An Accelerator for Machine Learning Companies

  December 8, 2015 · atlanta data-science machine-learning

  Explore CyberLaunch, Atlanta's accelerator for machine learning and info security startups, its program details, and its impact on the local startup ecosystem.

• Data Science Things Roundup #4

  December 5, 2015 · data-science machine-learning resources

  Data Science Things Roundup #4: Featuring Scikit-learn groups for feature sets, Markov Modulated Poisson Processes for event detection, and DBoost for boosting.

• Beyond One-Hot: An Exploration of Categorical Variables

  November 29, 2015 · data-science feature-engineering machine-learning

  A deep dive into different methods for encoding categorical variables in machine learning, exploring their benefits and trade-offs

• Pedal Wrencher: 1000 Notifications Sent

  November 26, 2015 · apps cycling python

  A retrospective on the pedal wrencher side project at 1000 SMS notifications sent, covering what I learned about the tech stack and the business case.

• Analyzing GitPython and Pandas With GitPandas

  November 19, 2015 · data-analysis git git-pandas

  Analyze GitPython and Pandas repositories with git-pandas! Explore LOC, contributors, and bus factor using this Python library for git analysis.

• Create a pip-installable python package in 2 minutes

  November 12, 2015 · open-source packaging pip

  Rapidly create and publish Python packages. Learn the steps from cookiecutter-pipproject template setup to pushing your first release to PyPI in minutes.

• Blame the world with git-pandas

  November 10, 2015 · dataviz git git-pandas

  Introducing git-pandas, a Python library offering a pandas interface for git analysis. Easily aggregate git blame across projects.

• Data Science vs. Data Engineering

  October 31, 2015 · big-data career data-engineering

  Understanding the fundamental differences between data science and data engineering through the lens of methodology rather than tools

• Sklearn-Extensions: Collecting Useful Scikit-Learn Add-ons

  October 20, 2015 · big-data data-science machine-learning

  From time to time I come across an interesting blog post, gist, or other snippet of code related to scikit-learn that is pretty cool. Historically, th

• Grapht: graph connectedness and dimensionality

  September 29, 2015 · data-science graph graph-analytics

  I've been toying around with [graph stuff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory) from time to time for a while now.  I still have pretty much no