Sander Vanden Hautte
Sander Vanden Hautte
I often get questions about the exotic errors thrown when users call Cobra's preprocessor. The error messages are too exotic for developers to understand that the datatypes they are passing...
# Preprocessing: improve additive smoothing in target encoder ## Task Description Additive smoothing in the target encoder prevents possible overfitting, but is disabled by default, with the default weight=0 parameter...
While reviewing a pull request, I tested the below method with some extra things. I noticed this: ``` @pytest.mark.parametrize("n_bins, auto_adapt_bins, data, expected", [ (2, False, # Variable contains floats, nans...
# Linking to the material of past cases we often present ## Task Description We sometimes present past industry cases we solved with Cobra. At least for the most popular...
# Bug Report Bug: Fix the Cobra package publishing pipeline ## Description I just [released our 2023-03 Cobra release v1.1.1 to PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/pythonpredictions-cobra/#history) but had to do build and publish the...
# Task Title Task: Automate selection of number of features ## Task Description Part of #134 but can be delivered independently and would already bring great value in allowing to...
# Add functionality to write away model metadata It would be nice to have a function for writing away the date and time of each new modeling attempt, which variables...
The issue of finding split models that work better than one single model presents itself again and again at clients (we discussed it last week again at one of our...