20 Most Elegant NumPy Tricks I Found After 3 Years of Use
Last Updated on June 28, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Bex T.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Become a NumPy samurai

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Every data scientist admires someone. For some, it might be people who create killer data visualizations; for others, it is simply anyone who answers their StackOverflow questions. For me, it was people who used NumPy like a ninja.
I don’t know. I have always thought that the ability to use a long forsaken function buried deep inside the documentation on rare edge cases spoke a lot about a programmer’s skill. Reinventing the wheel for a particular task is challenging, but that’s not always what you want.
This month, it was time to turn the tables around and become… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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