using python to avoid the loan calculation headache
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Make an Amortization Table using Python

Loans are terrifying and confusing and downright frustrating. To this day, even after navigating the treacherous waters of taking out a mortgage, I still find myself a little confused about how it all fits together. One of the tools I came…
a scatter plot chart made with plotly express
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Creating Beautiful, Interactive Charts with Plotly Express

As soon as I discovered Plotly I rushed to stick it into just about every project I had at hand, and was almost immediately...annoyed. My introduction to visualization in python came primarily from matplotlib and it's stylish counterpart seaborn; trying to work with Plotly to create charts of the same stylistic caliber ended up turning into a bit of a time sink. Enter Plotly Express - the far more intuitive, easily styled implementation of Plotly I wanted.
A visualization of census tracts in PA using geopandas
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Creating a Geopandas DataFrame from a SHP File

This is a bare bones tutorial on how to generate a Geopandas DataFrame from a SHP file in python. There are some good examples out there, but not really one that gave it the minimal approach I was looking for. I definitely learned a lot from…
a tree in a sunlit forest
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What is a Random Forest?

In my early journey into the murky depths of data science and machine learning I've come across the phrase Random Forest a few times, and been completely clueless as to what it actually referred to. Today I decided to dive in and explore…