Introduction I recently finished the MS in Data Science at Eastern University. This is a 30-credit program that is designed to be taken part-time and finished in 10 or 20 months (depending on whether you take 2 courses or 1 at a time.) The program uses accelerated 7-week courses and has 6 terms per year…
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DTSC-670 Tips and Tricks
Introduction DTSC-670 is the Foundations of Machine Learning Course at Eastern University. It’s a good course, definitely stretches your knowledge of matplotlib, Python, and scikit-learn as you learn how to build machine learning models and evaluate them. The purpose of this article is to explore some of the concepts in the course and give you…
When a New Package Kills Your Python Kernel: A Guide
Introduction We’ve all been there. You go to accomplish what seems like a small change, tweak or update to a computer program and everything goes bananas. In my case, I was downloading the package handson-ml2, the companion to the excellent machine learning textbook. The terminal code was supposed to have me create a virtual environment…