While Model Trains

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Unit Testing in Data Science

Jason Ash

A practical example of unit testing a function used to clean data before analysis.

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Decision Tree - Implemented from scratch

Oleg Żero

A step-by-step implementation to gain a better understanding of how a decision tree works.

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Prediction intervals for Random Forests

Ando Saabas

Prediction intervals are commonly used for linear models but are often underused for random forests. Leveraging the fact that a random forest can provide a conditional distribution instead of just the conditional mean makes prediction intervals relatively straightforward to use in this context.

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