Machine learning is an essential part of data science – a field which covers a range of activities from data acquisition and cleaning, through to analytics and data visualisation. It can be helpful to think in terms of a machine learning workflow that puts some structure around some of these processes. This post looks at… Read More »
Joining tables in SQL is an essential part of many digital services and products. Joins let you answer questions such as which customers bought which products? How many staff work at a particular location? Which students are in which classes at a school? Joining in SQL becomes even more important when your data are stored… Read More »
Data science can mean different things to different people, but we can try to define it by the techniques a data scientist tends to use. A recent online poll gave a top 10 of algorithms and methods used by Data Scientists. This post goes through that top 10 list of data science techniques to flesh… Read More »
With the Microsoft Word Docx format, it’s quite easy to see how images are stored. Docx files have been the default Word format since Word 2007, and are an open document format based on xml. The docx file is a container for xml files relating to the structure and text of the file, as well… Read More »
XML, or Extensible Mark-up Language, is a set of rules for encoding data and documents in a way that is both human and machine readable. XML excels where you need to transfer data between different systems, as there is almost always going to be an XML parser available. In this post I take a quick… Read More »