by George Perrett - Applied Statistician and Research Scientist Feature Selection Choosing a coffee is fundamentally an exercise in prediction. Presumptive coffee drinkers are presented with an onslaught of variables describing a coffee’s origins, flavors, sent, texture and roasting processes. The combination of variables can rapidly increases to the point of becoming overwhelming. While to … Continue reading LASSO a better cup of coffee
Image from Pixabay.com Multiple public and private entities work day and night to monitor, track and record the digital footprint left behind by internet users. Internet users are tracked for different reasons, including targeted advertising, government agency spying, content blocking and censorship, and identity theft. If you are worried about your safety and anonymity online, there … Continue reading How to be Anonymous Online – Best tools to protect your online privacy in 2021
BEST CODE EDITORS When learning to write code, whether you're learning HTML, Python, Javascript, or any other language, having the best code editor can greatly improve your skills and increase your learning speed. Below I have compiled a list of some of the best code editors. JetBrains: Developer Tools for Professionals and Teams By far … Continue reading Best Code Editors
Often times when scraping web data, accessing API's, or any other automated web activity through Python, you will want to use a web driver and/or proxy as levels of protection for your script and personal IP address. Using combinations of different web drivers and proxies can help ensure your process and personal IP are not blocked … Continue reading How to Run Web Drivers with Proxies in Python
I recently started reading the book Python Machine Learning by Sebastian Raschka. As I go through the book, I plan on doing a series of posts that will outline what I learn along the way. This post outlines the first chapter, "Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification". Specifically, the chapter dives into using a Perceptron … Continue reading Training a Perceptron Model in Python
Recently, I started receiving odd emails in my usually clean Gmail inbox. Unsure if they were spam or someone just trying to mess with me, it got my brain ticking and I decided to try figuring out where the emails came from. The steps here will be presented assuming you're using Gmail on a Mac … Continue reading Tracking Where Your Emails Come From
**UPDATE 11-19-17** I have included a function for automating the process of getting an auth token for the Tinder bot to work (Tinder Token Retriever). Shout out to the developer! To see a post of the code, view this post: Automatic Tinder Authentication Token Retriever in Python. The update has been included in the code … Continue reading Building a Tinder Bot in Python
