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Encoding cyclical continuous features - 24-hour time
Some data is inherently cyclical. Time is a rich example of this: minutes, hours, seconds, day of week, week of month, month, season, and so on all follow cy...
Data Munging in Pandas - Tricks and Pitfalls
Data munging is the least sexiest part of “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. According to authoritative popular sources like @BigDataBorat, data scientis...
Web Scraping - Discovering Hidden APIs
I was trying to help someone with a web scraping task today, and stumbled upon an interesting technique to find hidden APIs to scrape data from certain websi...
How to connect to your remote MongoDB server
I have MongoDB running on my Ubuntu server in Amazon EC2. Since there’s no simple all-in-one tutorial out there explaining how to set up user authentication ...
VBoW Pt 2 - Image Classification in Python with Visual Bag of Words (VBoW)
Image Classification in Python with Visual Bag of Words (VBoW)
VBoW Pt 1 - Image Classification in Python with SIFT Features
Image Classification in Python with Visual Bag of Words (VBoW)
Giant Panda Detector - Image Classification with SIFT Features
I made a flask app that guesses whether an image is or is not an image of a giant panda. It uses SIFT features to build a Visual Bag of Words model.
Pickling in Python - The Very Basics
You just ran through a time-consuming process to load a bunch of data into a python object. Maybe you scraped data from thousands of websites. Maybe you comp...
Scraping and Rendering HTML in iPython Notebook
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Web Scraping With XPath
XPath is very powerful, it’s kind of a query language like SQL but for XML documents, including HTML documents, so it is a natural fit for web scraping. A lo...