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Published in Towards Data Science

·Mar 19, 2021

Exploring Thai Food with Data

An end-to-end exploratory data project using R and Python — Overview “Let’s order Thai.” “Great, what’s your go-to dish?” “Pad Thai.” This has bugged me for years and is the genesis for this project. People need to know they have other choices aside from Pad Thai. …

R Programming

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Exploring Thai Food with Data
Exploring Thai Food with Data
R Programming

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Feb 21, 2021

When a popular data science advice falls on deaf ears

Pitfalls to avoid for new data scientists — Build a project portfolio. Arguably the most pervasive advice in data science. Listening to the excellent Build a Career in Data Science Podcast, I was surprised to learn few people heed this advice. A portfolio showcases your interests, skills and abilities to reason about data. It can convince a hiring…

Data Science

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When a popular data science advice falls on deaf ears
When a popular data science advice falls on deaf ears
Data Science

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Feb 19, 2021

Pad Thai is a terrible choice.

Let’s do better — “Let’s order Thai.” “Great, what’s your go-to dish?” “Pad Thai.” This has bugged me for years. Pad Thai shouldn’t be your first choice of Thai food. Like Turkey on Thanksgiving, most Pad Thai is overrated. Instead of a bang, it’s a whimper. There, I said it. Pad Thai was created…

Thai

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Pad Thai is a terrible choice.
Pad Thai is a terrible choice.
Thai

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Feb 18, 2021

Student Debt is Heavier for African Americans

Using R to visualize disparities in student debt and college attainment — Data suggests student debt bites twice. First, stalling wealth creation. Second, if it prevents people from finishing college, this further sets back wealth creation. Previously, I examined differences in college degree attainment, between White, Black and Hispanic Americans. The Widening Gap [1] lead to a hypothesis: Wealth inequality is positively…

Student Loans

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Student Debt is Heavier for African Americans
Student Debt is Heavier for African Americans
Student Loans

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Feb 17, 2021

Will cryptography save us from violence?

In light of recent euphoria, here’s a compelling bear case. I’m bullish Bitcoin and Ethereum. And any technology to redistribute power, resist censorship and preserve privacy. In light of the current crypto euphoria, I’d like to entertain the best bear case I’ve heard. Paraphrasing Demetri Kofinas, host of Hidden Forces: …

Bitcoin

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Will cryptography save us from violence?
Will cryptography save us from violence?
Bitcoin

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Feb 7, 2021

Valuable Public Blockchain are Harder to Attack

Using R and Python to visualize the relationship between Market Cap and Hourly Cost to Attack Overview In this post, I use Python and R to access, parse, manipulate, then visualize data from Crypto51.app to show the strong relationship between Market Capitalization and Cost to Attack among public crypto networks. The…

Cryptocurrency

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Valuable Public Blockchain are Harder to Attack
Valuable Public Blockchain are Harder to Attack
Cryptocurrency

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 29, 2021

How Positive are Your Facebook Posts?

Rule-based Sentiment Analysis Using Python and R — Overview Why Sentiment Analysis? NLP is subfield of linguistic, computer science and artificial intelligence (wiki), and you could spend years studying it. However, I wanted a quick dive to a get an intuition for how NLP works, and we’ll do that via sentiment analysis, categorizing text by their polarity. We can’t help but feel…

Python

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How Positive are Your Facebook Posts?
How Positive are Your Facebook Posts?
Python

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 16, 2021

Quickly Analyze Relationships in your Twitter Data

Use R to find out which metrics drive people to click on your profile — Overview & Setup This post uses various R libraries and functions to help you explore your Twitter Analytics Data. The first thing to do is download data from analytics.twitter.com. The assumption here is that you’re already a Twitter user and have been using for at least 6 months. Once there, you’ll click on…

Data Science

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Quickly Analyze Relationships in your Twitter Data
Quickly Analyze Relationships in your Twitter Data
Data Science

4 min read


Published in Python in Plain English

·Dec 26, 2020

Grasping Gradient Descent using Python

Using code to develop a feel for how machine learning optimization works — Overview In this post, we’ll explore Gradient Descent from the ground up starting conceptually, then using code to build up our intuition brick by brick. While this post is part of an ongoing series where I document my progress through Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus, for this post I…

Python Programming

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Grasping Gradient Descent using Python
Grasping Gradient Descent using Python
Python Programming

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Dec 18, 2020

Visualize Nested Data with Sunburst plots in R

Exploring the BBC’s Top 100 Influential Women of 2020 with interactive plots — Overview This is a quick walk through of using the sunburstR package to create sunburst plots in R. The original document is written in RMarkdown, which is an interactive version of markdown. The following code can be run in RMarkdown or an R script. …

Data Visualization

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Visualize Nested Data with Sunburst plots in R
Visualize Nested Data with Sunburst plots in R
Data Visualization

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