Hooking Up to Slack with Python

The free Slack collaboration environment combined with the Slack Python API  is a great way to automate simple tasks with simple Chat-Bots, automated scripts and background processes that can be written in Python and triggered from Slack on demand. This blog article leaves the details of what you do with Slack API and just goes through …

Hypothesis Testing in Python

This web-post aims to provide a practical guide to Hypothesis Testing in Python; this is for testing for Statistically Significant differences between two situations or scenarios (it is more complicated if there’s more than two). This blog assumes little math or statistics background and doesn't attempt to prove or use the math theorems directly - …

Multivariable Regression with Python

The general linear model can be exteded from simple linear regression (which only has one predictor value) by adding other terms into the linear model. There is a nice blog article that digs deeper into some of the statistics here: http://connor-johnson.com/2014/02/18/linear-regression-with-python/ This article is a simpler layman's guide to multivariable linear regression with some basic techniques …

Simple Linear Regression with Galton

Introduction Although recent advances in Deep Learning neural networks get all the interest and air-time at the moment, many practical machine learning tasks can be achieved using simpler techniques. Linear Regression is relatively easy to understand and very effective for solving many prediction problems in an efficient way. This is a simple practical guide to …

REST Calls to Oracle Database with Python and ORDS

ORDS stands for "Oracle Rest Data Services" and is available as a free download here (select the download tab).  ORDS can be used to enable REST calls for a database table or a whole schema. The ORDS package broadly consists of some database schemas ("users") with PL/SQL packages and a Java war file that has to …