Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceMastering the Versatility and Depth of Python’s Rich Plot Collection(with Code)From Sankey diagrams and spider plots to ridge plots, this article spans various visualizations, each with its unique use case and insight.·11 min read·Mar 30, 2024----
Dr. Theophano MitsainMiddle-PauseFrom Shadows to Legacy: Unearthing the Strength of Our Ancestral PastHow I used ancient wisdom to improve my daily life·9 min read·Jan 6, 2024--3--3
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceA Guide to 21 Feature Importance Methods and Packages in Machine Learning (with Code)From the OmniXAI, Shapash, and Dalex interpretability packages to the Boruta, Relief, and Random Forest feature selection algorithms·19 min read·Dec 19, 2023--4--4
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceNeed for Speed: Comparing Pandas 2.0 with Four Python Speed-Up Libs (with Code)Polars, Dask, RAPIDS.ai cuDF, and Numba are compared against Pandas 2.0 with pyarrow in the backend, vectorization, and itertuples()…·9 min read·May 19, 2023--2--2
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceFive Ways to Remember the Past (Model State) in PythonFrom closure functions and iterators to the State Machine Python library·9 min read·Jun 14, 2022--2--2
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data SciencePython Factories for Scalable, Reusable, and Elegant Code·5 min read·Jun 3, 2021--1--1
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceDiscovering the Treasures of 22 R Exploratory Analysis PackagesFind out the fastest and most informative ways to do EDA in R·12 min read·Mar 4, 2021--3--3
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data SciencePython and R for Data Wrangling: Examples for Both, Including Speed-Up Considerations.Upskill yourself by being able to wrangle data in both languages, and create notebooks with both Python and R cells.·9 min read·Aug 12, 2019--3--3
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceHow Do You Know You Have Enough Training Data?There is some debate recently as to whether data is the new oil [1] or not [2]. Whatever the case, acquiring training data for our machine…·9 min read·Apr 23, 2019--5--5
Dr. Theophano MitsainTowards Data ScienceA Data Scientist Should Know At Least This Much Python OOPA data scientist works with data and uses modeling techniques to detect anomalies, make financial predictions, classify medical images…·4 min read·Mar 27, 2019--3--3