Truman Daniels

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Essays, tutorials, and project notes grouped by their primary topic.

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MACHINE LEARNING

[2] entries

Topic: MACHINE LEARNING
Logged: 2023.10.09
Read Time: 3 min read

Creating a Machine Learning Application with Streamlit

A walkthrough for turning a trained Magic: The Gathering draft model into a simple Streamlit web application that serves predictions through a Python-only interface.

#machine learning #python #streamlit #application development #magic the gathering

Published October 9, 2023

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DATA ENGINEERING

[2] entries

Topic: DATA ENGINEERING
Logged: 2023.07.18
Read Time: 2 min read

How to Save a Betacal Model (PYTHON)

I was looking around the documentation for the excellent betacal package and google and I couldn’t find. Most ML major libraries (tensorflow, pytorch etc) have a built-in way to save a model. I figured I’d make a short tutorial on how to do this because there isn’t currently a way to do this built-in to the betacal package.

#Data Engineering #Data Science #machine learning #python #tracking

Published July 18, 2023

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Topic: DATA ENGINEERING
Logged: 2022.06.29
Read Time: 2 min read

Do NOT Store Your Data as a CSV File

This was a hard lesson to learn that seems obvious in hindsight.

#Data Engineering #Data Science #Database #Databases

Published June 29, 2022

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GENERAL

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Topic: GENERAL
Logged: 2022.10.28
Read Time: 3 min read

Data Visualization with Plotly in WordPress

After building a WebScraper with BeautifulSoup, I decided to visualize the data with Plotly. Note: for the book data “prices and ratings here were randomly assigned and have no real meaning” as stated by the source website books.toscrape.com because the website it used for testing purposes.

#general

Published October 28, 2022

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Topic: GENERAL
Logged: 2022.04.15
Read Time: 6 min read

Building a Webscraper with BeautifulSoup

In this article, I walk you through the building a program takes online book data on books.toscrape.com and stores it in a local SQLite database. You can see all the code for the completed project here.

#general

Published April 15, 2022

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Topic: GENERAL
Logged: 2022.01.21
Read Time: 6 min read

UFC Rankings: Should You Trust Them?

Are you a typical UFC viewer? Have you ever wondered if the ranking next to a UFC fighter’s last name actually means anything? I was curious and wanted to answer this question by investigating the data.

#general

Published January 21, 2022

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Topic

GAMES

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Topic: GAMES
Logged: 2022.10.20
Read Time: 4 min read

Becoming Better at League of Legends by Scripting

An exploration of using matchup data and Python scripts to choose a stronger League of Legends champion pool with limited practice time.

#games #programming #computer science #league of legends #strategy

Published October 20, 2022

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Topic

LOGGING

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Topic: LOGGING
Logged: 2022.05.05
Read Time: 2 min read

How to Track Machine Learning Experiments with TWO Lines of Python

You just hit the run button on your machine learning model and everything works whew. BEFORE you go turning all the knobs and dials, it’s important to set up some type of system for collecting data (you should know how important that is!) on your experiments.

#logging #machine learning #python #tracking

Published May 5, 2022

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