Ruby on Rails Tutorial — Part 2 — Now, before we delve into building a ruby on rails application, I just wanted to get the basics out of the way. Rails is a Ruby framework that is used to build database — backed full stack applications for the web. In order to do so, it follows a certain…

Ruby on Rails Tutorial— Part 1 — One of the most annoying errors that I encountered while I was learning to create rails applications was how to properly set up my PostgreSQL database. Rails is a Ruby framework that is used to build database — backed full stack applications for the web. …

The Logic behind it. — In an ideal world, all existing data would have labels. But that isn't always the case. Think of a scenario where patients visit a hospital with chest pains and have their chest scans taken in order to get a diagnosis. Some are healthy and others are not. However, you have…

Part 1: Missing Data Series — Deleting missing data — I’m sure you’ve heard that data scientists spend around 70% of their time in data cleaning. Basically, this means dealing with duplicated data, misspellings, transforming the data, looking for outliers, checking whether you have up to date data among others. One very common feature of data cleaning that you will…

Learn Beautiful soup, web scraping, and sending email alerts through this fun project! — A lot people have come up with smart ways to make purchases. And in this era of technology, there are modern solutions for just about anything. For instance, companies are mushrooming everywhere that help you find the best deals. But how exactly do they do that? …

When writing code, it is almost inevitable that you will run into errors. And knowing how to debug and catch the errors is probably one of the most important skills any programmer should have. Perhaps one of the most salient reasons is: Errors stop your program from running. Basically, it…

Machine Learning Models work very well with numerical data. However, data does not always come in such a format. Data will sometimes come in string format and this information has to somehow be incorporated into the model training. Take an example of the data set below. In the dummy data…

Understand Python List & Dictionary Comprehensions and apply these concepts to a real project. — Project based learning has long proven to be one of the most effective code-learning techniques. I have come across a lot of people pouring through hours of tutorials unsuccessfully, and at the end they are unable to put together some code to create a working project. The NATO-Phonetic project explained…

Imagine you wanted to predict whether someone had a risk of contracting diabetes. There would be a number of factors to consider. Some of those factors would be their age, their sugar levels, their blood pressure, their family history, their weight, their body mass index (BMI) and so on. …