You’ve likely heard that data scientists spend around 80% of their time cleaning data. It’s important to clean up your data because dirty data will lead to dirty analysis and dirty predictions. The dirty data could be used to make predictions that end up costing a company or an individual a lot of money, and […]
Why is Python the Best-Suited Programming Language for Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is the hottest trend in modern times. According to Forbes, Machine learning patents grew at a 34% rate between 2013 and 2017 and this is only set to increase in the future. And Python is the primary programming language used for much of the research and development in Machine Learning.
How to Set Up Your MacBook for Web Development in 2020
A guide to getting your Mac ready for web development — recommending tools, shortcuts, tips and tricks, and more I recently switched jobs, and during the first few days on the new job, I had to setup a MacBook with all the tools required for me to do my job, web development. Although, I’ve used […]
How to set up the code to create Fake videos and GIFs
To create animated videos and GIFs, we access the platform GitHub and look for the repository for the paper “First order Motion Model for Image Animation”. We download the file and follow the instructions described in the platform for installation. In our case, we are using Google Colab to develop our videos/GIFs, which is a free […]
Classification of license plates
In this project, a software solution in the form of an app was developed, hereinafter also referred to as “Keras-RetinaNet”. With the app it is possible to classify license plates. The most accurate object detectors to date are based on a two-step approach popular with R-CNN. In contrast, single-stage detectors that are applied through a […]
Spark DataFrames
In this part the main way we will be working with Python and Spark is through the DataFrame Syntax. If you have worked with pandas in Python, R, SQL or even Excel, a DataFrame will feel very familiar! Spark DataFrames hold data in a column and row format Each column represents some feature or variable […]