I have had many colleagues who work with the R programming language wanting something that is easily accessible for learning Python. I have started to compile some guides on how to work with Python data structures. My aim is to do a complete series of tutorials on how to utilise ...

This tutorial explores the various ways data can be encoded, using Pandas and Numpy, to prepare the data ready for a Machine Learning, or predictive model pipeline. Encoding methods There are three main methods explored therein: Label encoding – encoding a value based on where the label order falls – could be ...

I had a similar problem recently, and then a request came through from a close friend (Chris Mainey) for the same purpose. I thought “I’ll write a blog post on this”. So, what are the benefits of creating virtual environments.” First of all. what are virtual environments: A virtual ...

Wednesday (20th January 2021) myself and a colleagues Andreas kicked off the first webinar of 2021 for the NHS-R Community with our look at the benefits of using reticulate for joining up R and Python. What was the webinar about? The webinar was split into two sections: The first session involved me ...

The third in the series of Python Pandas tutorials. In this session we look at setting values, performing operations on data frames and histogramming.

In the previous post we worked with a custom data set we had created for the purposes of demonstration. This time we are going to work with the gapminder dataset. Viewing the gapminder dataset To initialise the gapminder dataset in my project I will use the below import statements to ...

The pypyodbc is the library you need to drive the connection to a SQL server database. If, like me, you struggle with connection strings, then please navigate to this site for help with all types of connection string: https://www.connectionstrings.com/. Installing with pip install To install the relevant ...