While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
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Presented 3 at a time.

Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die

Rafael Irizarry

A critique of dynamite plots and suggestions for better alternatives.

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The dangers behind image resizing

Marco Venturelli

"It is essential to carefully choose the library you want to use to perform resize operations, particularly if you're going to deploy your ML solution."

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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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