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Cross Validation and Grid Search for Model Selection in Python

Introduction A typical machine learning process involves training different models on the dataset and selecting the one with best performance. However, evaluating the performance of algorithm is not always a straight forward task. There are several factors that can help you determine which algorithm performance best. One such factor is the performance on cross validation set and another other factor is the choice of parameters for an algorithm. In this article we will explore these two factors in detail. We […]

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The Python Requests Module

Introduction Dealing with HTTP requests is not an easy task in any programming language. If we talk about Python, it comes with two built-in modules, urllib and urllib2, to handle HTTP related operation. Both modules come with a different set of functionalities and many times they need to be used together. The main drawback of using urllib is that it is confusing (few methods are available in both urllib, urllib2), the documentation is not clear and we need to write […]

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Association Rule Mining via Apriori Algorithm in Python

Association rule mining is a technique to identify underlying relations between different items. Take an example of a Super Market where customers can buy variety of items. Usually, there is a pattern in what the customers buy. For instance, mothers with babies buy baby products such as milk and diapers. Damsels may buy makeup items whereas bachelors may buy beers and chips etc. In short, transactions involve a pattern. More profit can be generated if the relationship between the items […]

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Using Regex for Text Manipulation in Python

Introduction Text preprocessing is one of the most important tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For instance, you may want to remove all punctuation marks from text documents before they can be used for text classification. Similarly, you may want to extract numbers from a text string. Writing manual scripts for such preprocessing tasks requires a lot of effort and is prone to errors. Keeping in view the importance of these preprocessing tasks, the Regular Expressions (aka Regex) have been […]

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Text Classification with Python and Scikit-Learn

Introduction Text classification is one of the most important tasks in Natural Language Processing. It is the process of classifying text strings or documents into different categories, depending upon the contents of the strings. Text classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting user sentiment from a tweet, classifying an email as spam or ham, classifying blog posts into different categories, automatic tagging of customer queries, and so on. In this article, we will see a real-world example of […]

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Comparing Strings using Python

In Python, strings are sequences of characters, which are effectively stored in memory as an object. Each object can be identified using the id() method, as you can see below. Python tries to re-use objects in memory that have the same value, which also makes comparing objects very fast in Python: $ python Python 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> a = “abc” >>> b = […]

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Beginner’s Tutorial on the Pandas Python Library

Pandas is an open source Python package that provides numerous tools for data analysis. The package comes with several data structures that can be used for many different data manipulation tasks. It also has a variety of methods that can be invoked for data analysis, which comes in handy when working on data science and machine learning problems in Python. Advantages of Using Pandas The following are some of the advantages of the Pandas library: It can present data in […]

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Text Summarization with NLTK in Python

Introduction As I write this article, 1,907,223,370 websites are active on the internet and 2,722,460 emails are being sent per second. This is an unbelievably huge amount of data. It is impossible for a user to get insights from such huge volumes of data. Furthermore, a large portion of this data is either redundant or doesn’t contain much useful information. The most efficient way to get access to the most important parts of the data, without having to sift through […]

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File Handling in Python

Introduction It is an unwritten consensus that Python is one of the best starting programming languages to learn as a novice. It is extremely versatile, easy to read/analyze, and quite pleasant to the eye. The Python programming language is highly scalable and is widely considered as one of the best toolboxes to build tools and utilities that you may want to use for diverse reasons. This article will briefly covers how Python handles one of the most important components of […]

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Preparing for a Python Developer Interview

Introduction In this article I will be giving my opinions and suggestions for putting yourself in the best position to out-perform competing candidates in a Python programming interview so that you can land a job as a Python developer. You may be thinking, with the shortage of programmers in the job market all I need to do is show up and answer a few questions about basic Python syntax and let my degree or bootcamp certificate take care of the […]

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