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Stop Hard Coding in a Data Science Project – Use Config Files Instead

Khuyen Tran

In a data science project, certain values such as file names, train-test split ratios, and hyperparameters often undergo frequent changes. By using configuration files instead of hard-coding these values, you can achieve better maintainability and flexibility.

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How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter

Rohit Supekar

How Dynamic Meter, the New York Times ML model that sets personalized meter limits and makes the paywall smarter, works.

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Mean Squared Terror

Vincent D. Warmerdam

On the risks associated with blindly relying on GridSearch.

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