Category: benchmarking
#benchmark #IPython #magic #memory #memory_profiler #profiling #benchmarking #python
Everybody loves %timeit, there’s no doubt about it. So why not have
something like that, but for measuring how much memory your line takes?
Well, now you can; grab a hold of the script in the following gist and
run it like in the example.
[gist id=3022718]
Instead …
Category: scikit-learn
#gsoc #vbench #benchmarking #python
To construct a vbench benchmark you need a setup string and a code
string. The constructor’s signature is:
Benchmark(self, code, setup, ncalls=None, repeat=3, cleanup=None, name=None, description=None, start_date=None, logy=False).
For most scikit-learn purposes, the code string will be …
Category: scikit-learn
#anscombe #outlier #robust regression #support vector regression #svm #svr #python #scikit-learn
Anscombe’s quartet is a set of four toy datasets that look very different, but many of their statistics coincide. They were developed by Francis Anscombe as a striking visual to show that even for small datasets, blindly examining their statistical properties without considering their structure can mislead.
Particularly, the …