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Joseph Babcock
Joseph Babcock
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Joseph Babcock

Joseph Babcock has spent more than a decade working with big data and AI in the e-commerce, digital streaming, and quantitative finance domains. Through his career he has worked on recommender systems, petabyte scale cloud data pipelines, A/B testing, causal inference, and time series analysis. He completed his PhD studies at Johns Hopkins University, applying machine learning to the field of drug discovery and genomics.
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Exploring categorical and numerical data in IPython


We will start our explorations in IPython by loading a text file into a DataFrame, calculating some summary statistics, and visualizing distributions. For this exercise we'll use a set of movie ratings and metadata from the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/) to investigate what factors might correlate with high ratings for films on this website. Such information might be helpful, for example, in developing a recommendation system based on this kind of user feedback.

Installing IPython notebook

To follow along with the examples, you should have a Windows, Linux, or Mac OSX operating system installed on your computer and access to the Internet. There are a number of options available to install IPython: since each of these resources includes installation guides, we provide a summary of the available sources and direct the reader to the relevant documentation for more in-depth instructions.

  • For most users, a pre-bundled Python environment...

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Joseph Babcock has spent more than a decade working with big data and AI in the e-commerce, digital streaming, and quantitative finance domains. Through his career he has worked on recommender systems, petabyte scale cloud data pipelines, A/B testing, causal inference, and time series analysis. He completed his PhD studies at Johns Hopkins University, applying machine learning to the field of drug discovery and genomics.
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