Thursday July 15, 2021 Environmental Awareness Caution: Do not take what is written here as advice from an expert. I am still learning about this topic and I am not prescribing what one should do with their system. It is only a description of what I am trying to learn and the possible actions I might Read more about 18 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Wednesday July 14, 2021 Exploring the System So, now, I am interested in how my system works. What are the load of files beyond my User file? I am using them all the time but I for the most part it is a black box to me. But, if I am not understanding where my Read more about 17 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Tuesday July 13, 2021 Clank! After the dust settled, I found that not managing my environments well was the true culprit of this rude awakening. My packages all disappeared because I had continued to install packages directly on my system. Since I was using pip3, they were going to my default python3 package directory which Read more about 16 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Monday June 12, 2021 CRASH! Bang! Okay…I’ve hit my first real speed bump! I’ll try to explain it. I am learning these concepts through experience and contact. So, at times, I will give my impression, which may not be exact. However, I will try to be precise about things I don’t know. I hope that Read more about 15 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Saturday & Sunday July 10 & 11, 2021: Podcast Listened to Real Python Podcast Episode 52. The topics covered were MongoDB (which reminds me I need to get back into a Mongo project at some point), and anther bit about python package security. The typical advice here was that you would always check the PyPI, Read more about 13 & 14 Days of Data / Round 2: Weekend Edition[…]
Friday July 9, 2021 Lesson Learned! Yes, I happened to find out how to make write yesterday’s plot better….And reading documentation was the key. I am going to go through as many of the tutorials as I can for my most frequently used libraries and packages. So, the Seaborn API tutorial showed me that instead Read more about 12 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Tuesday July 6, 2021 Ames Housing Progress Report I was not highly productive yesterday but I did squeeze out some visualizations from the dataset. As I said yesterday, I have split the dataset by feature into different domains. So I will try to get through one domain each day. The point is to get a Read more about 9 Days of Data / Round 2[…]
Monday June 5, 2021: Ames Housing Dataset I have decided that it would be interesting to try a real challenge. The Ames housing data set with about about 3,000 records and 80 features. It was designed to be a more realistic update to the Boston housing dataset. The great thing here is I really have no Read more about 8 Days of Data / Round 2:[…]
Saturday-Sunday June 3-4, 2021 Weekends are lighter and less intense I think this round I will fill my weekends with light reading and watching videos or listen to some podcasts (especially the Real Python Podcast) and doing some cleanup. Maybe I’ll look for some interesting news, like the Photonic Computer, which I discovered this weekend. Read more about 6 & 7 Days of Data / Round 2: Weekend Edition[…]
Friday June 2, 2021 Revisions on ML Diamond Prices I discovered that if I want to see my RMSE score on the kaggle competition (long since closed – but I want to compare with my previous submission) I have to submit my y_pred. However, in order to submit, no rows can be dropped. This means Read more about 5 Days of Data / Round2:[…]