python

Deploying your ML model with Flask and Heroku

Nov 9, 2019

data science, programming

heroku, machine learning, python, tutorial

I gave a tutorial to the SharpestMinds community this week on Flask and Heroku that proved useful. So I edited it and uploaded it. I essentially live code a basic web app from scratch to host an image classifier. It is scrappy and cuts a few corners, but the result is a working MVP. I…
Web-scraping with Python and Scrapy

Mar 26, 2019

data science

data science, machine learning, python, scrapy, web scraping

A common sentiment you’ll hear from data scientists is that the majority of their day-to-day work is spent collecting and cleaning data. This is a skill many beginner data scientists tend to neglect. It’s much easier to grab an existing clean data-set and start building models instead of creating one from scratch. At SharpestMinds, we…