Transformation

You know it. We know it. NumPy is cool. Pandas is cool. We can bend them to our will, but sometimes they’re not the right tools for the job. Enter Xarray and Awkward Array. Read on for the four reasons why you need to learn these Python packages.   Reason 1:  You need labeled arrays of…

Like most people, I mostly interact with Python using the default REPL or with IPython. Yet, I often reach for one of the Python tools that come with the standard library. All these tools are implemented as “mains” in the various scripts and modules. Here are 7 I use on a semi-regular basis. 1. &…

Recently, I’ve been working on a new course offering in Enthought Academy titled Software Engineering for Scientists and Engineers course. I’ve focused on distilling the software engineering best practices that we use at Enthought with our clients, with the twist of “what parts are most useful for a scientist who writes software for R&D?” After…

if __name__ == “__main__”: When I was new to Python, I ran into a mysterious block of code that looked something like: def main():     # do some stuff if __name__ == “__main__”:     main() Looking at the code, I could see that it ran the main() function after checking the status of…

In the blog post Configuring a Neural Network Output Layer we highlighted how to correctly set up an output layer for deep learning models. Here, we discuss how to make sense of what a neural network actually returns from the output layers. If you are like me, you may have been surprised when you first…