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Why do we need to divide by n-1?

Trying to give an intuitive understanding what's the difference between a biased and unbiased estimators of variance of a sample.


Group by date from a column

(Original notebooks can be found in this gist) Assume you have data set as follows: ID Date Value x x x where each row contains an ID, a date (given as pd.Datetime) and a value. The objective is to count how many rows occur in each day. import pandas …


When trying to hash a data frame

TL;DR The function pandas.DataFrame.values is not the inverse of pd.DataFrame(np.array). Introduction An important part of reproducible data science work, is the ability to apply the DAG on the very same dataset. Simplest option is to commit the datasets to a VCS like git. This …