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The Best of Daily Dose of Data Science Newsletter (2023)

Ridgeline Plots: An Underrated Gem of Data Visualisation

A Hidden Error That Can Seriously Affect Your Deep Learning Models

Why Dropout is Not Substantially Powerful for Regularizing CNNs

CNN Explainer: An Interactive Tool You Always Wanted to Try to Understand CNNs

How Zero-inflated Datasets Ruin Your Regression Modeling

‘Python -m’: The Coolest Python Flag That (Seriously) Deserves Much More Attention

9 Command Line Flags That No Python Programmer Must Ignore

Significantly Improve the Quality of Matplotlib Plots by Doing (Almost) Nothing

A Single Frame Summary of 10 Most Common Regression and Classification Loss Functions

The First Step Towards Missing Data Imputation Must NEVER be Imputation

The Biggest Limitation of Pearson Correlation Which Many Overlook

Interactive Controls — An Underrated Jupyter Gem That Deserves More Attention

A Pivotal Moment in NLP Research Which Made Static Embeddings (Almost) Obsolete

Don't Make This Blunder When Using Multiple Embedding Models in Your ML Pipeline

8 Automated EDA Tools That Reduce Plenty of Manual EDA Hard Work

An Overlooked Source of (Massive) Run-time Optimization in KMeans

How Does a Mini-Batch Implementation of KMeans Clustering Work?

The Most Common Way a Continuous Probability Distribution is Misinterpreted

5 Must-know Cross Validation Techniques Explained Visually

You Can Build Any Linear Model If You Learn Just One Thing About Them

The Modeling Limitations of Linear Regression Which Poisson Regression Addresses

GROUPING SETS — A HIGHLY Underrated Technique to Run Multiple Aggregations While Scanning the Table Only Once

Why is OLS Called an Unbiased Estimator?

Why Sklearn's Linear Regression Implementation Has No Hyperparameters?

Why Your Random Forest May Not Need an Explicit Validation Set for Evaluation

7 Must-know Techniques for Encoding Categorical Features

Logistic Regression Can NEVER Perfectly Model Well-separated Classes

Are You Misinterpreting the Purpose of Feature Scaling and Standardization?

A Unique Perspective on Understanding the True Purpose of Hidden Layers in a Neural Network

Feature Discretization: An Underappreciated Technique for Model Improvement

What Makes the Join() Method Blazingly Faster Than Iteration?

An Underrated Technique to Visually Assess Linear Regression Performance

Meet DBSCAN++: The Faster and Scalable Alternative to DBSCAN

Sourcery: The AI Pair Programmer That Every Python Programmer Must Have

A Visual and Intuitive Guide to What Makes ReLU a Non-linear Activation Function

Effortlessly Scale tSNE to Millions of Data Points With openTSNE

This GPU Accelerated tSNE Can Run Upto 700x Faster Than Sklearn

The Most Overlooked Source of Optimization in Data Pipelines

A Visual and Overly Simplified Guide to The AdaBoost Algorithm

The Supercharged Jupyter Kernel That Was Waiting to be Discovered

A Nasty Feature of Python That Many Programmers Aren't Aware Of

How to Evaluate Clustering Results When You Don't Have True Labels

8 Classic Alternatives to Traditional Plots That Every Data Scientist Must Add in Their Visualisation Toolkit

Boost Sklearn Model Training and Inference by Doing (Almost) Nothing

The Most Underrated and Underutilized Features of Matplotlib

Are You Using Probability and Likelihood Interchangeably?

NVIDIA's Latest Update Can Make Your Pandas Workflow 150x Faster

Federated Learning: An Overlooked ML Technique That Deserves More Attention

The Most Common Misconception That Pandas Users Have

Shuffle Feature Importance: Let Chaos Decide Which Features Matter the Most

6 Coolest Jupyter Hacks That 90% Users Are Consistently Ignoring

Are You Sure You Are Using the Train, Validation and Test Set Correctly?

A Practical and Intuitive Guide to Building Multi-task Learning Models

Transfer Learning vs. Fine-tuning vs. Multitask Learning vs. Federated Learning

Label Smoothing: The Overlooked and Lesser-Talked Regularization Technique

A Consolidated List of 20 Most Common Magic Methods

Sparklines: The Hidden Gem of Data Visualisation That Deserve Much More Attention

Statsmodel Regression Summary Will Never Intimidate You Again

The Most Common Mistake That PyTorch Users Make When Creating Tensors on GPUs

The Biggest Source of Friction in ML Pipelines That Everyone is Overlooking

The Most Misunderstood Thing About a Tuple's Immutability

One of the Most Critical Pillars of OOP is Missing from Python

How To Avoid Getting Misled by t-SNE Projections?

11 Essential Ways to Determine Normality of Data Distributions

A Visual and Intuitive Guide to QQ Plot That You Always Wanted to Read

How to Interpret Reconstruction Loss While Detecting Multivariate Covariate Shift?

How to Detect Multivariate Covariate Shift in Machine Learning Models?

Covariate Shift Is Way More Problematic Than Most People Think

You Cannot Build Reliable Data Projects Until You Learn Data Version Control

An Underrated Technique to Define More Elegant Python Classes

11 Essential Distributions That Data Scientists Use 95% of the Time

The Most Underrated Way to Prune a Decision Tree in Seconds

Vanna: The Supercharged Text-to-SQL Tool All Data Scientists Were Looking For

An Animated Guide to Bagging and Boosting in Machine Learning

What Makes Histograms a Misleading Choice for Data Visualisation?

Gradient Accumulation: Increase Batch Size Without Explicitly Increasing Batch Size

11 Essential Plots That Data Scientists Use 95% of the Time

Use The "Two Questions Technique" To Never Struggle With TP, TN, FP and FN Again

Become a Trilingual Data Scientist with These 15 Pandas ↔ Polars ↔ SQL Translations

The Supercharged Version of KMeans That Deserves Much More Attention

Why Bagging is So Ridiculously Effective at Variance Reduction?

Your Random Forest Model is Never the Best Random Forest Model You Can Build

Training and Inference Time Complexity of 10 Most Popular ML Algorithms

"How" Python Prevents Us from Adding a List as a Dictionary's Key?

Enrich Your Missing Data Analysis with Heatmaps

Measure Similarity Between Two Probability Distributions using Bhattacharyya Distance

The Ultimate Comparison Between PCA and t-SNE Algorithm

The Limitations of DBSCAN Clustering Which Many Often Overlook

Daily Dose of Data Science: A Year in Review and What's Next

Why You Should Avoid Deploying Sklearn Models to Production?

Beyond KMeans: 6 Must-Know Types of Clustering Algorithms in Machine Learning

An Algorithm-wise Summary of Loss Functions in Machine Learning

Why is Iteration Ridiculously Slow in Pandas DataFrames?

8 Immensely Powerful No-code Tools to Supercharge Your DS Projects

An Underrated Technique to Create Robust and Memory Efficient Class Objects

A Simple Technique to Robustify Linear Regression to Outliers

A Practical Guide to Becoming a Deployment-Savvy Data Scientist

Skorch: The Power of PyTorch Combined with The Elegance of Sklearn

A 2-min Guide to Becoming a Type Hints-Savvy Python Programmer

AutoProfiler: Automatically Profile Pandas DataFrame as You Work

The Probe Method: A Reliable and Intuitive Feature Selection Technique

Why ‘Variance’ Serves as the Prime Indicator for Dimensionality Reduction in PCA?

Deploy ML Models Right from Your Jupyter Notebook Using Modelbit

Model Compression: An Overlooked ML Technique That Deserves Much More Attention

An Underrated Technique to Improve Your Data Visualizations

How to Simplify Python Imports with Explicit Packaging?

An Intuitive Explanation to Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in Machine Learning

A Common Industry Problem: Identify Fuzzy Duplicates in a Data with Million Records

An Interactive Mind Map for All Pandas Operations

A Visual and Intuitive Explanation to Momentum in Machine Learning

Object-Oriented Programming with Python

Make Dot Notation More Powerful With Getters and Setters

How to Structure Your Code for Machine Learning Development?

The Limitation of Pearson Correlation While Using It With Ordinal Categorical Data

Maximum Likelihood Estimation vs. Expectation Maximization — What’s the Difference?

An Underrated Technique to Enhance Your Data Visualizations

What Makes PCA a Misleading Choice for 2D Data Visualization?

Using Python Dictionaries as a Potential Alternative to IF Conditions

What Makes Euclidean Distance a Misleading Choice for Distance Metric?

How to Create the Elegant Racing Bar Chart in Python?

An Overlooked Limitation of Traditional kNNs

Are You Misinterpreting Correlation for Predictiveness?

What Makes Box Plots a Misleading Choice for Data Analysis?

Never Use PCA for Visualization Unless This Specific Condition is Met

A Visual and Intuitive Guide to KL Divergence

How Zero-inflated Datasets Can Ruin Your Regression Modeling

Generalized Linear Models (GLMs): The Supercharged Linear Regression

Bubble Charts: A Non-Messy Alternative to Bar Plot

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The Must-Know Categorisation of Discriminative Models

Where Did The Regularization Term Originate From?

How to Create The Elegant Moving Bubbles Chart in Python?

Gradient Checkpointing: Save 50-60% Memory When Training a Neural Network

Gaussian Mixture Models: The Flexible Twin of KMeans

Why Correlation (and Other Summary Statistics) Can Be Misleading

MissForest: A Better Alternative To Zero (or Mean) Imputation

A Visual and Intuitive Guide to The Bias-Variance Problem

The Most Under-appreciated Technique To Speed-up Python

The Overlooked Limitations of Grid Search and Random Search

An Intuitive Guide to Generative and Discriminative Models in Machine Learning

Feature Scaling is NOT Always Necessary

Why Sigmoid in Logistic Regression?

Build Elegant Data Apps With The Coolest Mito-Streamlit Integration

A Simple and Intuitive Guide to Understanding Precision and Recall

Skimpy: A Richer Alternative to Pandas' Describe Method

A Common Misconception About Model Reproducibility

The Biggest Limitation Of Pearson Correlation Which Many Overlook

Gigasheet: Effortlessly Analyse Upto 1 Billion Rows Without Any Code

Why Mean Squared Error (MSE)?

A More Robust and Underrated Alternative To Random Forests

The Most Overlooked Problem With Imputing Missing Values Using Zero (or Mean)

A Visual Guide to Joint, Marginal and Conditional Probabilities

Jupyter Notebook 7: Possibly One Of The Best Updates To Jupyter Ever

How to Find Optimal Epsilon Value For DBSCAN Clustering?

Why R-squared is a Flawed Regression Metric

Next Steps for Daily Dose of Data Science

75 Key Terms That All Data Scientists Remember By Heart

The Limitation of Static Embeddings Which Made Them Obsolete

Drawdata: The Coolest Tool To Create Any 2D Dataset By Drawing It

An Overlooked Technique To Improve KMeans Run-time

The Most Underrated Skill in Training Linear Models

Poisson Regression: The Robust Extension of Linear Regression

The Biggest Mistake ML Folks Make When Using Multiple Embedding Models

Probability and Likelihood Are Not Meant To Be Used Interchangeably

SummaryTools: A Richer Alternative To Pandas' Describe Method.

40 NumPy Methods That Data Scientists Use 95% of the Time

An Overly Simplified Guide To Understanding How Neural Networks Handle Linearly Inseparable Data

2 Mathematical Proofs of Ordinary Least Squares

A Common Misconception About Log Transformation

Raincloud Plots: The Hidden Gem of Data Visualisation

7 Must-know Techniques For Encoding Categorical Feature

Automated EDA Tools That Let You Avoid Manual EDA Tasks

The Limitation Of Silhouette Score Which Is Often Ignored By Many

9 Must-Know Methods To Test Data Normality

A Visual Guide to Popular Cross Validation Techniques

Decision Trees ALWAYS Overfit. Here's A Lesser-Known Technique To Prevent It.

Evaluate Clustering Performance Without Ground Truth Labels

One-Minute Guide To Becoming a Polars-savvy Data Scientist

The Most Common Misconception About Continuous Probability Distributions

Don't Overuse Scatter, Line and Bar Plots. Try These Four Elegant Alternatives.

CNN Explainer: Interactively Visualize a Convolutional Neural Network

Sankey Diagrams: An Underrated Gem of Data Visualization

A Common Misconception About Feature Scaling and Standardization

7 Elegant Usages of Underscore in Python

Random Forest May Not Need An Explicit Validation Set For Evaluation

Declutter Your Jupyter Notebook Using Interactive Controls

Avoid Using Pandas' Apply() Method At All Times

A Visual and Overly Simplified Guide To Bagging and Boosting

10 Most Common (and Must-Know) Loss Functions in ML

How To Enforce Type Hints in Python?

A Common Misconception About Deleting Objects in Python

Theil-Sen Regression: The Robust Twin of Linear Regression

What Makes The Join() Method Blazingly Faster Than Iteration?

A Major Limitation of NumPy Which Most Users Aren't Aware Of

The Limitations Of Elbow Curve And What You Should Replace It With

21 Most Important (and Must-know) Mathematical Equations in Data Science

Beware of This Unexpected Behaviour of NumPy Methods

Try This If Your Linear Regression Model is Underperforming

Pandas vs Polars — Run-time and Memory Comparison

A Hidden Feature of a Popular String Method in Python

The Limitation of KMeans Which Is Often Overlooked by Many

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Nine Most Important Distributions in Data Science

The Limitation of Linear Regression Which is Often Overlooked By Many

A Reliable and Efficient Technique To Measure Feature Importance

Does Every ML Algorithm Rely on Gradient Descent?

Why Sklearn's Linear Regression Has No Hyperparameters?

Enrich The Default Preview of Pandas DataFrame with Jupyter DataTables

Visualize The Performance Of Linear Regression With This Simple Plot

Enrich Your Heatmaps With This Simple Trick

Confidence Interval and Prediction Interval Are Not The Same

The Ultimate Categorization of Performance Metrics in ML

The Coolest Matplotlib Hack to Create Subplots Intuitively

Execute Python Project Directory as a Script

The Most Overlooked Problem With One-Hot Encoding

9 Most Important Plots in Data Science

Is Categorical Feature Encoding Always Necessary Before Training ML Models?

Scikit-LLM: Integrate Sklearn API with Large Language Models

The Counterintuitive Behaviour of Training Accuracy and Training Loss

A Highly Overlooked Point In The Implementation of Sigmoid Function

The Ultimate Categorization of Clustering Algorithms

Improve Python Run-time Without Changing A Single Line of Code

A Lesser-Known Feature of the Merge Method in Pandas

The Coolest GitHub-Colab Integration You Would Ever See

Most Sklearn Users Don't Know This About Its LinearRegression Implementation

Break the Linear Presentation of Notebooks With Stickyland

Visualize The Performance Of Any Linear Regression Model With This Simple Plot

Waterfall Charts: A Better Alternative to Line/Bar Plot

What Does The Google Styling Guide Say About Imports

How To Truly Use The Train, Validation and Test Set

Restart Jupyter Kernel Without Losing Variables

The Advantages and Disadvantages of PCA To Consider Before Using It

Loss Functions: An Algorithm-wise Comprehensive Summary

Is Data Normalization Always Necessary Before Training ML Models?

Annotate Data With The Click Of A Button Using Pigeon

Enrich Your Confusion Matrix With A Sankey Diagram

A Visual Guide to Stochastic, Mini-batch, and Batch Gradient Descent

A Lesser-Known Difference Between For-Loops and List Comprehensions

The Limitation of PCA Which Many Folks Often Ignore

Magic Methods: An Underrated Gem of Python OOP

The Taxonomy Of Regression Algorithms That Many Don't Bother To Remember

A Highly Overlooked Approach To Analysing Pandas DataFrames

Visualise The Change In Rank Over Time With Bump Charts

Use This Simple Technique To Never Struggle With TP, TN, FP and FN Again

The Most Common Misconception About Inplace Operations in Pandas

Build Elegant Web Apps Right From Jupyter Notebook with Mercury

Become A Bilingual Data Scientist With These Pandas to SQL Translations

A Lesser-Known Feature of Sklearn To Train Models on Large Datasets

A Simple One-Liner to Create Professional Looking Matplotlib Plots

Avoid This Costly Mistake When Indexing A DataFrame

9 Command Line Flags To Run Python Scripts More Flexibly

FREE Daily Dose of Data Science PDF (550+ Pages)

Breathing KMeans: A Better and Faster Alternative to KMeans

How Many Dimensions Should You Reduce Your Data To When Using PCA?

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Be Cautious Before Drawing Any Conclusions Using Summary Statistics

Use Custom Python Objects In A Boolean Context

A Visual Guide To Sampling Techniques in Machine Learning

You Were Probably Given Incomplete Info About A Tuple's Immutability

A Simple Trick That Significantly Improves The Quality of Matplotlib Plots

A Visual and Overly Simplified Guide to PCA

Supercharge Your Jupyter Kernel With ipyflow

A Lesser-known Feature of Creating Plots with Plotly

The Limitation Of Euclidean Distance Which Many Often Ignore

Visualising The Impact Of Regularisation Parameter

AutoProfiler: Automatically Profile Your DataFrame As You Work

A Little Bit Of Extra Effort Can Hugely Transform Your Storytelling Skills

A Nasty Hidden Feature of Python That Many Programmers Aren't Aware Of

Interactively Visualise A Decision Tree With A Sankey Diagram

Use Histograms With Caution. They Are Highly Misleading!

Three Simple Ways To (Instantly) Make Your Scatter Plots Clutter Free

A (Highly) Important Point to Consider Before You Use KMeans Next Time

Why You Should Avoid Appending Rows To A DataFrame

Matplotlib Has Numerous Hidden Gems. Here's One of Them.

A Counterintuitive Thing About Python Dictionaries

Probably The Fastest Way To Execute Your Python Code

Are You Sure You Are Using The Correct Pandas Terminologies?

Is Class Imbalance Always A Big Problem To Deal With?

A Simple Trick That Will Make Heatmaps More Elegant

A Visual Comparison Between Locality and Density-based Clustering

Why Don't We Call It Logistic Classification Instead?

A Typical Thing About Decision Trees Which Many Often Ignore

Always Validate Your Output Variable Before Using Linear Regression

A Counterintuitive Fact About Python Functions

Why Is It Important To Shuffle Your Dataset Before Training An ML Model

The Limitations Of Heatmap That Are Slowing Down Your Data Analysis

The Limitation Of Pearson Correlation Which Many Often Ignore

Why Are We Typically Advised To Set Seeds for Random Generators?

An Underrated Technique To Improve Your Data Visualizations

A No-Code Tool to Create Charts and Pivot Tables in Jupyter

If You Are Not Able To Code A Vectorized Approach, Try This.

Why Are We Typically Advised To Never Iterate Over A DataFrame?

Manipulating Mutable Objects In Python Can Get Confusing At Times

This Small Tweak Can Significantly Boost The Run-time of KMeans

Most Python Programmers Don't Know This About Python OOP

Who Said Matplotlib Cannot Create Interactive Plots?

Don't Create Messy Bar Plots. Instead, Try Bubble Charts!

You Can Add a List As a Dictionary's Key (Technically)!

Most ML Folks Often Neglect This While Using Linear Regression

35 Hidden Python Libraries That Are Absolute Gems

Use Box Plots With Caution! They May Be Misleading.

An Underrated Technique To Create Better Data Plots

The Pandas DataFrame Extension Every Data Scientist Has Been Waiting For

Supercharge Shell With Python Using Xonsh

Most Command-line Users Don't Know This Cool Trick About Using Terminals

A Simple Trick to Make The Most Out of Pivot Tables in Pandas

Why Python Does Not Offer True OOP Encapsulation

Never Worry About Parsing Errors Again While Reading CSV with Pandas

An Interesting and Lesser-Known Way To Create Plots Using Pandas

Most Python Programmers Don't Know This About Python For-loops

How To Enable Function Overloading In Python

Generate Helpful Hints As You Write Your Pandas Code

Speedup NumPy Methods 25x With Bottleneck

Visualizing The Data Transformation of a Neural Network

Never Refactor Your Code Manually Again. Instead, Use Sourcery!

Draw The Data You Are Looking For In Seconds

Style Matplotlib Plots To Make Them More Attractive

Speed-up Parquet I/O of Pandas by 5x

40 Open-Source Tools to Supercharge Your Pandas Workflow

Stop Using The Describe Method in Pandas. Instead, use Skimpy.

The Right Way to Roll Out Library Updates in Python

Simple One-Liners to Preview a Decision Tree Using Sklearn

Stop Using The Describe Method in Pandas. Instead, use Summarytools.

Never Search Jupyter Notebooks Manually Again To Find Your Code

F-strings Are Much More Versatile Than You Think

Is This The Best Animated Guide To KMeans Ever?

An Effective Yet Underrated Technique To Improve Model Performance

Create Data Plots Right From The Terminal

Make Your Matplotlib Plots More Professional

37 Hidden Python Libraries That Are Absolute Gems

Preview Your README File Locally In GitHub Style

Pandas and NumPy Return Different Values for Standard Deviation. Why?

Visualize Commit History of Git Repo With Beautiful Animations

Perfplot: Measure, Visualize and Compare Run-time With Ease

This GUI Tool Can Possibly Save You Hours Of Manual Work

How Would You Identify Fuzzy Duplicates In A Data With Million Records?

Stop Previewing Raw DataFrames. Instead, Use DataTables.

🚀 A Single Line That Will Make Your Python Code Faster

Prettify Word Clouds In Python

How to Encode Categorical Features With Many Categories?

Calendar Map As A Richer Alternative to Line Plot

10 Automated EDA Tools That Will Save You Hours Of (Tedious) Work

Why KMeans May Not Be The Apt Clustering Algorithm Always

Converting Python To LaTeX Has Possibly Never Been So Simple

Density Plot As A Richer Alternative to Scatter Plot

30 Python Libraries to (Hugely) Boost Your Data Science Productivity

Sklearn One-liner to Generate Synthetic Data

Label Your Data With The Click Of A Button

Analyze A Pandas DataFrame Without Code

Python One-Liner To Create Sketchy Hand-drawn Plots

70x Faster Pandas By Changing Just One Line of Code

An Interactive Guide To Master Pandas In One Go

Make Dot Notation More Powerful in Python

The Coolest Jupyter Notebook Hack

Create a Moving Bubbles Chart in Python

Skorch: Use Scikit-learn API on PyTorch Models

Reduce Memory Usage Of A Pandas DataFrame By 90%

An Elegant Way To Perform Shutdown Tasks in Python

Visualizing Google Search Trends of 2022 using Python

Create A Racing Bar Chart In Python

Speed-up Pandas Apply 5x with NumPy