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As data scientists, we’re used to splitting training and testing data, to evaluate the performance of our models. Recently, I had the opportunity to put those two words together in quite a different way, when I prepared and led an internal training session on an entirely different, but highly important, technique: Unit Testing. The importance of… Continue reading Training on Testing

plot.ly dash is a great framework for building dashboards – but that’s not the only use for it. I tend to use plot.ly dash for all my web-app needs – mostly because I haven’t hit a wall yet where I can’t achieve something using plot.ly dash that I can be using another framework. I recently… Continue reading Calendar with pandas and plot.ly dash

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! Here at Bays, we’re committed to supporting our female colleagues and helping them reach their career goals. That’s why we’re so excited about today, where we’ll be recognising our amazing women in engineering and technology, sharing their stories with the world, and celebrating them as an inspiration for other… Continue reading Women in STEM: An interview with Holly Jones

This blog will show you how to create word documents (.docx) using Python. This can be very useful, especially in the generation of reports. I’ll be using below report as an example. The library that will be used to do this in this blog is docx v0.8.11. In [1]: # !pip install python-docx=0.8.11 Libraries: In [2]: import pandas… Continue reading How to create word documents (.docx) using Python

With a degree in Master of Arts, I never dreamt of working in data science and alongside some great mathematicians and number nurds. After more than a decade working in marketing, and a year with Bays Consulting, I’m now proudly calling myself a Baytonian. So, what does our company Bays Consulting do? We deliver data… Continue reading We are Baytonians

Covid restrictions are lift, companies are asking themselves the questions about what the new way of working will look like. I have been asked a few times how our ‘remote company with an office’ operates. I thought this is a good opportunity to write about it in my overdue blog! Bays is a 12 person… Continue reading Remotely Flexible: Our Way of Working.

Positive workplace culture is essential to small business productivity, as toxic cultures are estimated to cost the UK economy an eye-watering £15.7 billion per year. This month, Bays Consulting have joined a growing community of businesses, who are showing their investment in creating a positive workplace culture for their team by joining the Breathe Culture… Continue reading Bays Consulting joins the Breathe Culture Pledge

After the recent widely publicised comments by Katharine Birbalsingh that ‘girls don’t like hard maths’, she followed it up with a tweet which said: ‘Why are people scared of the evidence that says that in general men are more systematic and women more empathetic.  Why can’t we say that out loud? That doesn’t mean there… Continue reading Hard Maths and Empathy

I want to see how many times proper nouns are mentioned in the text I’m using (the first part of Pride and Prejudice) and whether any of them are Mr. Darcy. There are a few ways to identify parts of speech in text, however I’m going to be using TextBlob, a Python library. I’ll to… Continue reading Identifying parts of speech in text using TextBlob, will I find Mr. Darcy?