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Roll up, roll up the NHS-R Community Conference 2021 is coming to town

PythonGary Hutson23/09/20210

The conference will be held virtually and will kick-off : Monday 8th of November – Wednesday 10th November Featuring: Main Conference Events. This will include more workshops, lightning talks and plenary sessions. And the week before we will have lots of hands-on workshops: Monday 1st November – Friday 5th November Series of workshops for all…

General musings!Gary Hutson17/09/20210

Common mistakes we Data Scientists make

DISCLAIMER I am a data scientist and have made all these mistakes, but I have had the privilege of sitting on…

PythonGary Hutson14/09/20210

Parallelisation of Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning in Sci Kit Learn

Hello, it is me again for another post on how to make sci-kit perform at the top of its game. Amping…

PythonGary Hutson14/09/20210

Parallelisation of Sci Kit Learning Python Models

Learn how to speed up your models in Scikit Learn with parallel processing.

PythonGary Hutson08/09/20211

Creating and replicating an Anaconda Environment from a YAML file

I had the perfect environment for my setup and I want to potentially create another environment and add some additional packages,…

PythonGary Hutson07/09/20210

Training XGBoost Model and Assessing Feature Importance using Shapley Values in Sci-kit Learn

In this tutorial I will take you through how to: Read in data Perform feature engineering, dummy encoding and feature selection…

R BlogsGary Hutson21/07/20210

ConfusionTableR has made it to CRAN

In my dusty GitHub repository, sitting there, was a gem of a tool for tidying the outputs of a machine learning…

PythonGary Hutson16/07/20210

PyHacks tutorials – the resource for learning Python is growing

I had an aim at the start of this year to make learning Python accessible to everyone, for free. Unfortunately, I…

R BlogsGary Hutson15/07/20210

FeatureTerminatoR – a package to remove unimportant variables from statistical and machine learning models automatically

The motivation for this package is simple, while there are many packages that do similar things, few of them perform automated…

R BlogsGary Hutson12/07/20210

Foghorn package – find out pending CRAN packages in the pipeline

I have recently just pushed my fourth package to CRAN, I will do a separate post on this, but the FeatureTerminatoR…