Random forest is a highly versatile machine learning method with numerous applications ranging from marketing to healthcare and insurance. It can be used to model the impact of marketing on customer acquisition, retention, and churn or to predict disease ...

line_profiler is a module for doing line-by-line profiling of functions. kernprof is a convenient script for running either line_profiler or the Python standard library's cProfile or profile modules, depending on what is available. (more…)

I haven't done any Python programming in years. I think it's probably 10 years ago, and then it was only some basic learning-how-to-program stuff. I'm participating in a project at work. We're doing some prototyping with a Raspberry Pi and some custom sof... (more…)

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