Whenever you start with machine learning, there are several well known datasets ( Iris dataset for example 🥀 ). Among them there is one for images that is simple, popular and interesting, namely the MNIST dataset which consist of a large number of handwritten digits 📝 [1].

Here we are going to use an incredible simple idea to get information from those images: the cosine of the angle between two vectors. So this is going to be particularly good for newbies in ML or DS 😉. It is likely that you are familiar with the dot product for vectors. In…

For a while, I and others in the Streamlit community [1] have been seeking a tool to render interactive graphs, but until now this has been something only a few can achieve. This can be due to the fact that a level of expertise with javascript is required, something that many Streamlit users may want to avoid, as this is the promise of the project, deploy beautiful web apps from python, no javascript required!! (of course, mastering javascript is a big plus for making awesome streamlit apps).

Recently I found Pyvis, after a few weeks looking for an alternative to…

Setting up Autodock Vina

“There is an urgent need to share our methods, models, and results openly and quickly to test findings, ensure reproducibility, test significance, eliminate dead-ends, and accelerate discovery. Sharing of data for COVID-19 applications will help connect scientists across the global biomolecular simulation community and also improve connection and communication between simulation and experimental and clinical data and investigators.”

A Community Letter Regarding Sharing Biomolecular Simulation Data for COVID-19 [1].

What I present below is the first of at least two posts dedicated to a technique called Virtual Screening used in computational molecular biochemistry. Broadly speaking, it…

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First, I want to say that it seems to me of enormous importance that online media gives the opportunity to present to the world the efforts being made by the scientific-technological communities in times as urgent as those we currently live in. It is necessary to disseminate…

Mexico is still in the second phase of the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus and has had a very valuable opportunity when observing what has happened in other countries where today the situation is critical.
In this exercise, I will show how the cases reported by 1) The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University for cases from around the world and 2) from the information provided by the Mexican government for cases reported as positive to the Covid-19 in the Mexican Republic, can be tracked using Pandas and the Plotly Express library to generate interactive maps.

First…