How to Successfully Enter the Data Science Field — I decided to publish this article for a number of reasons. First of all, I’ve been working as a freelance data scientist for some years, hence acquiring valuable experience that could prove useful for those wishing to enter the field. Second, numerous people have contacted me in the past year…

How to Create Time Series Forecasting Models with Darts — Climate change is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges that humanity is facing, with experts considering it an existential threat for our species. In 2021, unprecedented heatwaves and great wildfires were recorded worldwide, while floods brought destruction in Europe and Asia. According to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)…

Introducing the New Free Machine Learning Platform of AWS — Getting started with machine learning can be a daunting experience, especially if you are not technically oriented and experienced with computers. Anaconda is an amazing tool, but it requires some expertise to set up and use correctly. Furthermore, having a powerful computer is necessary to train machine learning models on…

Low-code Machine Learning with a Powerful Python Library — The content of this article was originally published in my latest book, Simplifying Machine Learning with PyCaret. You can click here to learn more about it. One of the fundamental tasks in unsupervised machine learning is clustering. The goal in this task is to categorize instances of a given dataset…

Developing a fake news detection app with spaCy and Streamlit — The proliferation of fake news is a significant challenge for modern democratic societies. Inaccurate information can affect the health and well-being of people, especially during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, disinformation erodes public trust in democratic institutions, by preventing citizens from making rational decisions based on verifiable…

Creating climate change graphs with the xarray and cartopy Python libraries — It is an undeniable fact that climate change poses the biggest challenge for humanity in the current era. The global mean temperature is constantly rising and the IPCC has pointed out the increase should be limited to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, to have any hope of mitigating the harmful…

Exploring the greek Airbnb Market by using data analysis, visualization and natural language processing — The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on most aspects of human activity. Tourism is one of the industries that have been significantly affected, as many companies associated with it are struggling to survive during these challenging times. In this article, we are going to focus on the Airbnb market…

Outlier noun out·​li·​er | \ ˈau̇t-ˌlī(-ə)r \ 1 : a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample 2 : a person or thing that is atypical within a particular group, class, or category Outlier detection is the identification of dataset elements that vary…

Developing a Streamlit web app that provides forecasts for renewable energy generation in EU countries — Climate change is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges that humanity is facing. The past decade was the warmest on record, and 2019 ended with a global mean temperature of 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. Rising global temperatures have a significant impact on every aspect of human well-being, such as health…