Encoding continuous and categorical values as dummies. — Categorical and Continuous Values Neural networks require their input to be a fixed number of columns. This input format is very similar to spreadsheet data. This input must be entirely numeric. It is essential to represent the data in a way that the neural network can train from it. In class 6, we will…

Apply and Map function on a pandas dataframe — Apply and Map Map and reduce are two functions that apply a task that you create to a data frame. Pandas supports functional programming techniques that allow you to use functions across en entire data frame. Pandas also provides several standard functions for use with data frames. Using Map with Dataframes The map function allows you to…

Pandas functions like Reset-Index, sort, group and shuffle explained with examples. — Shuffling a Dataset There may be information lurking in the order of the rows of your dataset. Unless you are dealing with time-series data, the order of the rows should not be significant. Consider if your training set included employees in a company. Perhaps this dataset is ordered by the number of years…

Intro to Pandas, reading files handling Missing values — Pandas is an open-source library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language. It is based on the dataframe concept found in the R programming language. Took the auto mpg dataset from the StatLib library. The following code loads the MPG dataset into a…

Examples on Functions, Lambda and Map/Reduce — Functions, lambdas, and map/reduce can allow you to process your data in advanced ways. We will introduce these techniques here and expand on them in the next module, which will discuss Pandas. Function parameters can be named or unnamed in Python. Default values can also be used. …

Reading csv, text and image files — There are many different types of files that we can process. Some of these file types are listed here: CSV files (generally have the .csv extension) hold tabular data that resembles spreadsheet data. Image files (generally with the .png or .jpg extension) hold images for computer vision. Text files (often…

List, Dictionary, Set and Tuple — Dictionary — A dictionary is a mutable unordered collection that Python indexes with name and value pairs. List — A list is a mutable ordered collection that allows duplicate elements. Set — A set is a mutable unordered collection with no duplicate elements. Tuple — A tuple is an immutable…

Basics of Python — Hello World, Print Statements, If and For loops.. Pytho is a popular general-purpose programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum, and released in 1991. It is used for: web development (server-side). software development. Machine Learning. Deep Learning etc. I have used Jupyter notebook for…