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Published in Towards Data Science

·Mar 20

6 Ways to Build Best Practices for Data Science Teams

Setting standards for high-performing data science teams — Data science is a field that combines traditional mathematics and statistics with the power of large-scale compute and more modern machine and deep learning techniques to generate insights from data. The data science discipline is complex, experimental by nature and subject to a large degree of uncertainty. As with adjacent…

Data Science

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6 Ways to Build Best Practices for Data Science Teams
6 Ways to Build Best Practices for Data Science Teams
Data Science

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Published in EDF Data and Tech

·Feb 27

Meet the 2022 Data & Technology Graduates

By Rebecca Vickery Originally published on EDF’s Energywise Blog Each year EDF runs a two-year data and technology scheme where graduates undertake work placements and tailored training to develop a range of skills from the fields of software engineering, data engineering and data science. …

People

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Meet the 2022 Data & Technology Graduates
Meet the 2022 Data & Technology Graduates
People

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 15

Learn to be a Data Science Leader

5 resources for learning the skill that no one will teach you — There are tons of training materials, courses and articles available about how to become a Data Scientist. Once you start working in the field the transition to a Senior Data Scientist should naturally occur as you gain more experience and skills. For many Data Scientists the natural next step after…

Data Science

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Learn to be a Data Science Leader
Learn to be a Data Science Leader
Data Science

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Nov 9, 2022

Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet

A quick reference guide to 5 common algorithms — The “no free lunch” theorem for machine learning states that there is no single machine learning algorithm that can solve all types of machine learning problems. Machine learning tasks can vary widely and the choice of algorithm will depend on things such as the size, dimensionality and sparsity of the…

Data Science

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Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet
Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet
Data Science

8 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Sep 27, 2022

5 Minute Guide to Cross Validation

What are the strategies? How and when should you use them? — The goal of a machine learning model is to learn general patterns from specific examples. In real life all data contains a degree of random variation and noise. …

Data Science

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5 Minute Guide to Cross Validation
5 Minute Guide to Cross Validation
Data Science

5 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Sep 19, 2022

3 Tools for Fast Data Profiling

Quickly analyse and summarise your data with these Python tools — Data profiling is one of the first steps in any data science project. It is a form of exploratory data analysis which seeks to analyse, describe and summarise a dataset to gain an understanding of both its quality and fundamental characteristics. The data profiling task is used to inform further…

Data Science

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3 Tools for Fast Data Profiling
3 Tools for Fast Data Profiling
Data Science

6 min read


Published in Towards Data Science

·Aug 30, 2022

An Introduction to Preprocessing Data for Machine Learning

Understand how and when to apply common preprocessing techniques — Machine learning algorithms learn patterns that exist in a set of features and use these patterns to predict a given target variable for new unknown data. …

Data Science

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An Introduction to Preprocessing Data for Machine Learning
An Introduction to Preprocessing Data for Machine Learning
Data Science

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Aug 19, 2022

Machine Learning in a Data Warehouse

Get started with machine learning using Snowpark Python — If you are working as a Data Scientist in a business setting you will extract much of your data for machine learning from a data warehouse or data lake. …

Data Science

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Machine Learning in a Data Warehouse
Machine Learning in a Data Warehouse
Data Science

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Published in Towards Data Science

·May 27, 2022

3 Free Machine Learning Courses You Should Take Right Now

Get started with your machine learning journey for free — There are many ways to get started with studying machine learning. I have previously written a lot about how to design your own curriculum and roadmap as an alternative to taking courses. This approach allows you to pick and choose free, or low-cost, resources from across the internet that suit…

Machine Learning

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3 Free Machine Learning Courses You Should Take Right Now
3 Free Machine Learning Courses You Should Take Right Now
Machine Learning

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Published in Towards Data Science

·May 17, 2022

Managing Data Science Projects with Poetry

How to install, set up, and use Poetry to manage your data science projects — Reproducibility is an important aspect of data science. When we talk about reproducibility in data science we refer to the ability to independently recreate the results of a project either by yourself at a later point in time or by a colleague. Having processes that ensure reproducibility builds trust in…

Data Science

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Managing Data Science Projects with Poetry
Managing Data Science Projects with Poetry
Data Science

4 min read

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