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  • Speeding Up Spark

    A slow spark query can be painful, especially when spark describes itself as a solution to speeding up big data processes. In this post we equate a spark table to a poorly designed employee directory and continously improve it until we achieve more than a 20x speed up in performance.

    Jan 23, 2022

  • Chaining in Pandas

    Pandas chaining is an alternative to variable assignment when transforming data. Those in favor of chaining argue that the code is easier to read because it lays out the execution of the transformation like a recipe. In this post we will explore transforming the Titanic Dataset to prep it for machine learning using both chaining and variable transformation.

    Aug 22, 2021

  • Luigi ETL

    Luigi is a python ETL framework built by Spotify. I use pandas in my day-to-day job and have created numerous pipeline tasks to move, transform, and analyze data across my organization. I thought Luigi would be a great addition to help manage these pipelines, but after reading their getting started documentation, it left me scratching my head.

    Oct 26, 2020

  • Predicting Stock Prices with Prophet

    In this post we will be using Facebook's Prophet to forecast time series data. The data we will be using is historical daily SA&P 500 adjusted close price. We will first create a 3 year forecast usind ytd data and then simulate historical monthly forecasts dating back to 1980. Finally we will create various trading strategies to attempt to beat the tried and true method of buying and holding.

    Oct 20, 2020

  • Not Hotdog App with fast.ai

    In this post we will be using fast.ai to recreate the "Not Hotdog" app featured in the tv show "Silicon Valley". The fastai library simplifies training fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices.

    Oct 19, 2020

  • Predicting Reddit Comment Score with Keras Deep Learning

    In this post we will be using Tensorflow and utilizing the high level API Keras to predict comments scores on the popular web forum Reddit.

    Oct 19, 2020

  • Pandas Tips and Tricks

    Pandas Tips and Tricks learned from StackOverflow

    Oct 18, 2020

  • PGA Driving Distance Over the Years

    A look at how PGA driving distance has changed over the Years

    Oct 18, 2020

  • Identifying Cross Selling Opportunities with Collaborative Filtering

    Collaborative Filtering is a common approach to developing recommendation engines. Essentially it is an algorithm that relies on user behavior to provide a recommendation.

    Oct 18, 2020

  • Fastpages Notebook Blog Post

    A tutorial of fastpages for Jupyter notebooks.

    Feb 20, 2020

  • An Example Markdown Post

    A minimal example of using markdown with fastpages.

    Jan 14, 2020