This summer I worked on my first substantial research project in Python. I’ve used Python for a number of small projects before, but this was the first time that it was important for me to have an efficient workflow for working with many models at once. I... (more…)

A decision tree can be visualized. A decision tree is one of the many Machine Learning algorithms. It’s used as classifier: given input data, it is class A or class B? In this lecture we will visualize a decision tree using the Python module pydotplus and... (more…)

Self-educators hit roadblocks learning Python when tutorials over-rely on external Python modules. Read for a prescription to prevent burnout and confusion. (more…)

Impressed by the graphs on popular site FiveThirtyEight? This quick tutorial gets you started making your own eye-catching visualizations. (more…)

This blog post was authored by Eleanor Boyd, 2021 Summer Intern for Python Tools for VS Code. Coming into an internship you never really know what to expect from your summer. What I definitely didn’t expect was that my whole summer would center around one... (more…)