PinnedNicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceEmulating a PID Controller with Long Short-term Memory: Part 1Using the Temperature Control Lab to create Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller data·8 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceThe Achilles Heel of Scatter PlotsVisualizing large datasets with hidden trends using an alternative to scatter plots·5 min read·Feb 5, 2023----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceScratchpad Add-in for Jupyter Notebooks and Google ColabAccessing Scratchpad functionality in both Jupyter notebooks and Google Colab·3 min read·Jan 31, 2023----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceLearning Python for Data Science On-the-Job, Part 2: PracticeA side-by-side case study of linear regression in Excel and Python·10 min read·Jan 15, 2023----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceLearning Python for Data Science On-the-Job Part 1: PhilosophyPractical advice and philosophy on how to become a proficient Data Scientist without formal education·8 min read·Jan 14, 2023----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceMy Data Science Job SearchWhat worked, what didn’t, and practical tips·8 min read·Dec 13, 2022--8--8
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data SciencePractical Machine Learning Techniques to Accelerate Materials Science ResearchPredicting the Critical Temperature of Superconductors using Regression Techniques, Feature Selection, and Selection Criteria·12 min read·Aug 19, 2022----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceThe Benefits of Machine Learning for the Renewable Energy SectorA case study in weather prediction using logistic regression, unbalanced datasets, and l1-normalization·6 min read·Jul 28, 2022--2--2
Nicholas LewisThe Ethical Paradigm of Jean ValjeanIn Victor Hugo’s beloved novel Les Miserables, we meet the character Jean Valjean, a convict who was incarcerated for nineteen years…·7 min read·Jul 6, 2022----
Nicholas LewisinTowards Data ScienceAdvanced Options with Hyperopt for Tuning Hyperparameters in Neural NetworksIf you’re anything like me, you spent the first several months looking at applications of machine learning and wondering how to get better…·14 min read·Jan 21, 2021--1--1