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Philipp Kats
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Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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Belligerents

Lastly, as we noticed, in some rows, the axis and allies parties are swapped. It is slightly confusing for this specific dataset. For example, in this dual model, we'll have to mark Soviets as axis when they attacked Poland during the initial stages of the war. Let's take a look at all the possible combinations:

battles['Belligerents.allies'].value_counts()

Here, value_counts() calculates a number of occurrences of each value. Hence, the index of those series represents unique values. There is a more intuitive alternative – the unique() function (which is also faster). However, this is a NumPy function and it returns a NumPy array, which Jupyter prints badly—that's the only reason we prefer to use value_counts.

From the examination, we can observe that all the incorrect values contain either one of 'Germany', &apos...

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Philipp Kats

Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz

David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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