From someone in the process of becoming a data scientist. They had a question on regular expressions, which made almost no sense. It appears that the core concepts of ETL -- Extracting source data, Transforming it into a useful form and the Loading into some persistent storage for long-term analysis -- had …
more ...In "Why Python?" I linked to a deep and sophisticated analysis of programming languages. Anyway, I thought it was a deep and sophisticated analysis.
I got a reply that shows how wrong I was. Here's the quote:
The point is that the Python ecosystem has a lot to offer. We …
more ...The context is an ongoing question about optimization -- not my strong suit -- and the SciPy algorithms for this. See Scipy.optimization.anneal Problems for some additional confusion over simple things.
The new quote is this:
However, firing up Python, NumPy, SciPy and figuring out which solver to use is not …more ...
A deep dive into probability and scipy: https://www.packtpub.com/building-probabilistic-graphical-models-with-python/book I have to admit up front that this book is out of my league. The Python is sensible to me. The subject matter -- graph models, learning and inference -- is above my pay grade.