Why interpreting models is important It is important to understand how and why someone makes decisions, especially when they are allowed to act autonomously. How does a judge determine if someone is guilty or not? How does a doctor decide on a specific treatment? Why does a screenwriter decide to kill a character at the…

This article will show you how to hide your credentials from git by saving them as environment variables and loading them in Python using dotenv. What’s wrong with hardcoding your credentials? Hardcoding your credentials is a terrible idea, especially if you are using some kind of version control tool (like git). Anyone with access to the…

This article will teach you how to use VADER for Sentiment Analysis tasks. What is Sentiment Analysis? Sentiment Analysis is the process of extracting information from a message to determine its tone (positive, negative, neutral, etc.) or intensity (super happy, somewhat happy, just happy, etc.). Training your own Sentiment Analyzer is typically very expensive…

This article will teach you how to identify the language of a text using a pre-trained model. Available options Technically, you have three options when it comes to identifying the language of a given text. You can manually label the data, but this can easily get out of hand volume increases. You…

Why learn SQL? Virtually all Data Scientists will stumble upon SQL at one point or another. Mastering it is vital for anyone in the field. Instead of completing tutorials or courses, I find that writing queries is the best way to learn SQL. However, if you do not have access to a well-organized…