Category: Data Science
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Installing pymc on OS X using homebrew
I’ve been working through the following book on Bayesian methods with an emphasis on the pymc library: However, pymc installation on OS X can be a bit of a pain. The issues comes down to fortran… I know. The version of gfortran in newer gcc implementations doesn’t work well with the pymc build, you need […]
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The Math of Machine Learning
(hover for CC attribution) One of the challenges of data science in general is that it is a multi-disciplinary field. For any given problem, you may need skills in data extraction, data transformation, data cleaning, math, statistics, software engineering, data visualization, and the domain. And that list likely isn’t inclusive. One of the first questions […]