Posted by Jack McKew on Tue 19 March 2024 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 3 min read
In our final exploration into machine learning with PyTorch, we're going to do something critical for lifeforms in our world, learn to walk!
This post took many trials and errors, a form of reinforcement learning I completed unsupervised as a human. The resulting code below was what ended up working …
Posted by Jack McKew on Mon 26 February 2024 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 9 min read
Neural networks are something you hear about constantly in the world of machine learning, so in this post we're going to build, train and test a neural network to classify images with PyTorch! We will be using the CIFAR-10 dataset (CIFAR stands for Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), and it's …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 07 February 2024 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 11 min read
Weather affects every single human on earth for the better or worse, and we've come to rely on weather predictions in order to plan how we spend our day. But how can we predict the weather? In this post we're going to develop a machine learning model with recurrent neural …
Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 21 September 2023 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 3 min read
Now that we've built & trained logistic regression and decision tree models to classify the iris dataset in these previous posts:
We found that they were both really good in their own regard (potentially overfitting), but what if we had two models …
Posted by Jack McKew on Tue 15 August 2023 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 1857 min read
What are decision trees? It's a tool to assist with making decisions, in a tree like structure, similar to a flow chart; where each branch of the tree is a decision, usually made with some boundaries that decide which branch to follow. A basic decision tree could be of a …
Posted by Jack McKew on Sun 06 August 2023 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, machine learning, ai • 17 min read
In this post we'll go through a few things typical for any project using machine learning:
While this is a very high level overview of what we're about to do. This process is almost the same in any …
Posted by Jack McKew on Mon 29 May 2023 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation • 4 min read
Have you ever wondered what the sequence to postcodes is? Ever wondered who your postcode neighbour was? I definitely have, so I've built a visualisation to do exactly that, and made it interactive for everybody to play around with!
Before we get into any of the processing, let's take a …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 08 January 2021 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation • 3 min read
Typography is 'the style and appearance of printed matter', so in this post we're going to make some typography art with Matplotlib, we're going to make use of some text and colour the words which are colours themmselves (eg, the colour red will be coloured red). This is an interesting …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 12 June 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation • 6 min read
Geopandas and Pandas_Alive
Following on from a previous post on making animated charts with pandas_alive, let's go into generating animated charts specifically for geospatial data with geopandas. Support for geopandas was introduced into pandas_alive in version 0.2.0, along with functionality to interface with contextily for enabling basemaps. The …
Posted by Jack McKew on Wed 26 February 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, visualisation, generative • 40 min read
Visualising gradient descent in 3 dimensions
Building upon our terrain generator from the blog post: https://jackmckew.dev/3d-terrain-in-python.html, today we will implement a demonstration of how gradient descent behaves in 3 dimensions and produce an interactive visualisation similar to the terrain visualisation. Note that my understanding of gradient …