Tutorials

Merging dicts with the union operator

Python 3.9 introduced a new operator to streamline unions.

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Simple Multiprocessing in Python

Comparing inbuilt solutions to a range of external libraries.

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Low Poly Art

Low poly art animations using scipy is actually pretty simple

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Genetic Algorithms 2: Painting Vermeer

A gentle introduction to genetic algorithms by recreating painting classics

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Genetic Algorithms 1: The Starry Night

A gentle introduction to genetic algorithms by recreating painting classics?

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Linear Regression Regularization Explained

Why do we regularize our linear models? When do we turn this on or off?

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An Introduction to Gaussian Processes

Welcome to the wonderful world of non-parametric models and kernel functions.

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Principle Component Analaysis Explained

What is PCA? How does it work? Is the math that bad? How do I use it? All answers lie within!

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Fuzzy String Matching

Removing the hassle of misspelling from a dataset

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Visualising Patient Contributions for the CCCC

A visual thank you to our contributing sites

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Training a Neural Network Embedding Layer with Keras

Using python, Keras and some colours to illustrate encoding as simply as possible

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Gource - Visualisating Code Contributions

Turn your git log into a fancy video

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PR vs ROC Curves - Which to Use?

Exploring the difference between the graphs using python.

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Naive Bayes - Introduction, Assumptions, and Pitfalls

A beginners introduction to Naive Bayes in python.

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An Introduction to Logistic Regression

A beginners introduction to logistic regression in python.

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Evolution of US COVID-19 cases

Practise with pandas, python and plotly.

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Which Big City has the best Weather?

Python Plotting Preferred Weather

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Plotting US COVID-19 Incidence

A quick redesign of an incidence reporting plot

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Getting started with Boost, Python, and Numpy

After failing to find a tutorial that was actually complete, I decided to make one myself.

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Monte-Carlo Integration made easy

A practical Python explanation of Monte-Carlo integration

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A visual tutorial of Inversion Sampling

Efficient inversion sampling explained with Python.

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One Line Python Singletons

Goodbye boilerplate code, hello an elegant one line solution to get singletons in python

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Removing Empty Columns

Remove mostly empty columns to clean your data using pandas.

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Handy Python Decorators

A short example on how to use decorators in your code to provide extra functionality

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Trivial One Hot Encoding in Python

The most efficient code snippet to one-hot encode columns

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A visual tutorial of Rejection Sampling

Von Neumann rejection sampling explained with Python and animations.

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Forward Modelling for Supernova Cosmology

A toy model implementation

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A/B Test Significance in Python

Using Python to determine just how confident we are in our A/B test results

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Visualising with Basemap

Plotting DES institutions in a beautiful way

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Propagating (non-gaussian) uncertainty

From samples back to model confidence regions

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Bayesian Sample Selection Effects

Sample bias and selection effects are the worst. Here's one solution.

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Bayesian Linear Regression in Python

A tutorial from creating data to plotting confidence intervals.

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Setting up a scientific python environment

A super short guide to quickly setting up a viable python environment.

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Additive Blending in Matplotlib

A short tutorial on additive blending using matplotlib and numpy.

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