When You are working with different operating systems you encounter different line endings. Editing a file on a Linux system and opening it on a windows machine can give a weird result. Here is a short overview which system uses which command characters: OS Command character Windows CR + LF Linux LF Mac OS <=…
ROC Curve As we already introduced Precision and Recall the ROC curve is another way of looking at the quality of classification algorithms. ROC stands for Receiver Operating Characteristic The ROC curve is created by plotting the true positive rate (TPR) on the y-axis against the false positive rate (FPR) on the x-axis at various…
Location Humans are creatures of habit! Because I attendend the BarCamp 2017 at Uni Würzburg I went straight to the M2 building. I should’ve read my emails more thoroughly, actually building Z6 of University Würzburg was this event’s location. And the campus is quite large so I had to walk a bit. Bummer! The Sessions…
To setup the SD Card on MacOS follow these steps Download the Raspbian Image Insert the SD-Card into the reader Open a terminal Find out the device’s name by typing diskutil list Erase the contents / format card to FAT32 sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 RASPBIAN MBRFormat /dev/disk2 sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 Copy image to card…
Pandas is a data analyzing tool. Together with numpy and matplotlib it is part of the data science stack You can install it via pip install pandas Working with real data The data set we are using is the astronauts data set from kaggle:
If You already read Python pip and virtualenv you are familiar with the way python handles requirements. but lo and behoild there is a new kid in town or actually two new kids on the block: Pipfile and Pipenv – both with with a capital “P”. If you are tired of creating and maintaining…
The Dark Ages The dark ages are the years between stopping playing with LEGO as a child and starting again to play again as an adult. In my case more than 20 years. Getting back to it When my older daughter turned 4, we decided to give her her first LEGO as a birthday present…
Applying for a data scientist job offer? Tired of writing the same old curriculum vitae? Why not showing your data visualization skills directly in your application? Generate Data Instead of pressing your data about education, employment and skills in a word-like document, put it in tables instead. E.g. use open office to create and edit…
Installation To work with OpenCV from python, you need to install it first: pip install opencv-python Reading Images from file After we import cv2 we can directly work with images like so: import cv2 img = cv2.imread(“doc_brown.png”) For showing the image, it is recommended to use matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)…
A cool new feature made its way into Python 3.7: Data classes. When You’ve already read my article about Lombok the concept isn’t so new at all: With the new decorator @dataclass You can save a huge amount of time because the methods __init__() __repr__() __eq__() are created for you! from dataclasses import dataclass @dataclass…