Natural Language Processing: NLTK vs spaCy20191017175548
Natural Language Processing: NLTK vs spaCy
October 17, 2019Entity extraction, Natural Language Processing, NLP, nltk, POS tagging, python programming, tokenization
There's a real philosophical difference between NLTK and spaCy. NLTK was built by scholars as a tool to help you create complex NLP functions. In cont...
Plotting Data in Python: matplotlib vs plotly20191010151619
Plotting Data in Python: matplotlib vs plotly
October 10, 2019data visualization, matplotlib, plotly, python programming
Data visualization provides a powerful tool to explore, understand, and communicate the valuable insights and relationships that may be hidden within ...
Using Python to Convert PDFs to Images20191003113007
Using Python to Convert PDFs to Images
October 3, 2019Ghostscript, PDF conversion, pdf2image, poppler, pypdf2, python programming
Python is good at providing developers with easy ways to make use of complex C code libraries to accomplish compute-intensive tasks. In this blog, we'...
How to Migrate Python 2 Applications to Python 320190926093038
How to Migrate Python 2 Applications to Python 3
September 26, 20192to3, activepython, activestate platform, python 2 eol, python migration, python programming, python-future, six
Porting code from an older version of Python to a newer version can be a difficult and intimidating process. This blog compares and provides examples ...
Creating Python Dashboards: Dash vs Bokeh20190919093606
Creating Python Dashboards: Dash vs Bokeh
September 19, 2019activepython, activestate platform, bokeh, dash, dashboarding, python programming
Modern data collection processes can lead to the creation of very large datasets, which makes it difficult to effectively analyze data in a quick and ...
Flask vs Django: Comparing REST API Creation20190912100052
Flask vs Django: Comparing REST API Creation
September 12, 2019activepython, activestate platform, API creation, django, flask, python programming
In the web-driven world that we currently live in, APIs are king, and when it comes to Python, there are two popular choices for building a scalable, ...
Extending Asana with Lambda20190904115250
Extending Asana with Lambda
September 4, 2019html, lambda, product management, python programming
From time to time, all of us run up against the limitations of our tools. In the old days, you’d put in a feature request and NOT hold your breath wai...
How to Clean Machine Learning Datasets Using Pandas20190829100032
How to Clean Machine Learning Datasets Using Pandas
August 29, 2019activepython, activestate platform, data analysis, machine learning, python programming
The first step in any machine learning project is typically to clean your data. In this post, we show you how to cleanse data using Python and Pandas....
TensorFlow Optimization Showdown: ActiveState vs. Anaconda20190821105140
TensorFlow Optimization Showdown: ActiveState vs. Anaconda
August 21, 2019activepython, data science, machine learning, tensorflow
TensorFlow has become one of the most popular machine learning software packages among data scientists. It was originally developed for internal use a...
Comparing Decision Tree Algorithms: Random Forest vs. XGBoost20190814131732
Comparing Decision Tree Algorithms: Random Forest vs. XGBoost
August 14, 2019activepython, algorithms, machine learning, python
Random Forest and XGBoost are two popular decision tree algorithms for machine learning. In this post I’ll take a look at how they each work, compare ...