How to bypass limitations of the Twitter Official API when scraping twitter data. — GetOldTweets3 is a free Python 3 library that allows you to scrape data from twitter without requiring any API keys. It also allows you to scrape historical tweets > 1 week old, which you cannot do with the Twitter API. Using GetOldTweets3, you can scrape tweets using a variety of…

Conceptual deep dive with step-by-step implementation in numpy and sklearn. — “Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment… the key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.” — Nate Silver Introduction Bias-Variance Tradeoff A typical issue students run into when fitting a model is balancing the model’s bias with its variance, known as the bias-variance tradeoff.

A brief look at COVID-19 infection rates in South Korea and Italy. — COVID-19 Situation Overview According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19, or “coronavirus disease 2019,” is a respiratory illness caused by a newly discovered coronavirus that is believed to have originated in Wuhan City, China, in December 2019. …

Using Seasonal Decomposition to Inform the SARIMA Model Selection of Soybean Prices in Python. — There are a variety of approaches you can use when working with time series data, such as linear models, ARIMA models, exponential smoothing methods, and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). …