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Writing and practical explorations from DataEspresso.
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Book Review: The Pandas Workshop
I have used the Python data manipulation package Pandas daily and professionally for the last six years, but I’ve never actually done any official training…
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AI practitioner turns Science Fiction into reality
Most people have dreamt about what the future looks like, but that future is already here for Hesham Dar – a Data Scientist and AI…
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How Science Fiction inspires scientists
Thinking up new ideas and theories before technology can support them requires imagination, vision, and an open mind. This article explores how visionary science fiction…
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Reflections after reading A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins newest book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence discusses how the brain uses map-like structures to model the world and what…
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Comparison between PCA and LDA
PCA and LDA are two popular dimensionality reduction methods commonly used on data with too many input features. In many ways the two algorithms are…
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Quantifying Londoners change in fitness habits during lockdown
With people being urged to stay at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, gyms closed, and social distancing measures in place, it’s safe to say that…
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Tutorial: Making sense of Fitbits’s JSON export
Fitbit has improved its online data exporting tool to allow export of all the accumulated data, a big step up from their previous export tool…
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Tutorial: Stress detection with wearable devices and Machine Learning
This blog post presents an automated machine learning approach in Python to create a stress monitoring system with data from devices such as fitness trackers.…
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Recommended Quantum Computing Books
Here are some links to quantum computing related books I’ve found very useful. Note that these are affiliate links, and I get a few pence…
