Python

Favorite Places to Find Datasets

Interesting datasets can make personal machine learning projects more fun and exciting. Here are some of my favorite places to go looking for datasets to hone my data science and ML skills.

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Python

Detecting Outliers Using Python

Detecting outliers can be important when exploring your data before building any type of machine learning model. Some causes of outliers include data collection issues, measurement errors, and data input errors. Detecting outliers is one step in analyzing data points for potential errors that may need to be removed prior to model training. This helps prevent a machine learning model from learning incorrect relationships and potentially lowering accuracy.

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Python

Predicting Wine Prices with Hyperparameter Tuning

Hyperparameter tuning can be used to improve default configurations of many popular machine learning libraries. This article walks through how to apply Optuna - a hyperparameter optimization library - to predict Wine prices!

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Power BI

Power BI Resources

One of the most frequent questions for those learning Power BI I encounter relates to what are the best resources to learn from. There are a lot of great blogs, YouTube channels, and various community members who post great tips and tricks when learning to develop Power BI datasets and reports. In this article, I'm going to list some of my favorites that I've encountered so far in my journey learning the tool.

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