R comes with a plethora of data sets to play with out of the box, which really come in handy when you're exploring how new functions work. While Python's pandas package tries to emulate the best parts of R's data frames, it can be tedious to find ...

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After much data collection and munging, I'm proud to present this graph of my strange eating habits for July 2013. This breaks down my caloric consumption for each day by carbohydrates (blue), fat (green), and protein (red). I have data from March 2013 through August 2013, but I chose ...

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Around March 2013, I began tracking the food that I eat, logging workouts, and taking miscellaneous personal notes with Twitter. At first, my goals were simple: start tracking as much as possible and then analyze it later. Over time, I settled on tracking food consumption, workouts, and mood. My hypothesis ...

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Today I'll share some of the goodies I've found while exploring scikit-learn's tutorial and practice embedding code snippets in posts. I'll try to avoid just rehashing the tutorial. To get started, scikit-learn (and numpy, which it depends on) should be installed. I also assume we're ...

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