I have migrated my blog. It is built under Pelican, a static site generator. It allows me to write posts as plain markdown or even Jupyter notebooks. I then use GitHub Pages to version and publish the blog. I am continuing to use Aruba as domain provider. It is sufficient …
read moreInsights from IEEE Big Data 16
I have attended the IEEE Big Data 16 conference in Washington DC. I thank my company for sponsoring the trip. The conference included a special symposium dedicated to manufacturing. The symposium hosted some participants of the Bosch Production Line Performance competition from Kaggle.
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Weighted Random Sampling with PostgreSQL
You have a table like the following:
CREATE TABLE weights ( color varchar primary key, weight float ); INSERT INTO weights (color, weight) VALUES ('red', 8), ('blue', 3), ('green', 10), ('yellow', 10);The table lists the weights associated with certain colors. Imagine a weight representing how much you like that color.
Now …
read moreApplied Bayesian Inference with PyMC [video]
I was glad to give an intro to Bayesian Inference at PyData Florence 2016. The video of the talk is now out.
read moreA Simple Machine Learning Pipeline
This post contains the code that I used in my talk at Python Milano Meetup on June 22nd 2016. The talk was a quick overview of Pipeline, a nice API by scikitlearn to abstract your machine learning algorithm. It is based on the Boston Housing Data Set.
We'll just load …
read moreInstall a .deb file from terminal on Ubuntu
I use Ubuntu 16.04. Sometimes, when I double-click a .deb file, the installation program does not work. What often solves the problem is installing it from terminal.
read moresudo dpkg -i my_deb_file.deb sudo apt-get -f installInsights from Data Science Milan - 19/05/16
#DeepLearning introduction and enterprise architectures using #H2O - first #DataScienceMilan meetup! - https://t.co/I8LsfaFJSu
— Andrea Scarso (@andreaesseci) May 18, 2016A new Data Science meetup is out in Milan. Two talks about Deep Learning were given in the first event.
Neural Networks and Deep Learning: An Introduction. @MilanHighTech. The first …
read moreBayesian A/B Testing in Python
Imagine you re-designing your e-commerce website. You have to decide whether the "Buy Item" button should be blue or green. You decide to setup an A/B test, so you build two versions of the item page:
- Page A which has a blue button;
- Page B which has a green …
Insights from PyData Florence 16
I have just joined PyData conference in Florence, and I will list briefly some interesting insights.
Oh my... We are already overcrowded @pyconit and it's *just* the beginning!! 🎉🎉 good job guys! 🙌🏻 #pycon7
— (((Valerio Maggio))) (@leriomaggio) April 15, 2016Time Travel and Time Series Analysis with Pandas and Statsmodels, @hendorf …
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