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  1. So You Want To Be A Data Scientist

    Wed 24 October 2018

    With all the hype around data science as a profession (21st century's sexiest job!), many people are clamoring to take online courses, attend in-person boot camps, and do newly created master's programs at different universities. While some of that hype is indeed deserved (much of what is going on is …

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  2. Poochr 2: Electric Dogaloo

    Tue 07 November 2017

    This is a follow up to a previous post.

    Overview

    I was really dissatisfied with the performance of the topic modeling for Poochr's recommendations, so I decided to try a different approach for the text part. Based on examining the typical text input, I noticed people were usually focusing in …

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  3. Poochr: dog breed recommendations

    Tue 17 October 2017

    Dog breed recommendations

    The code is available online. This is part of a two part series where the second part can be found here.

    Summary

    Recently, my house mate decided to get a Siberian husky because it is a pretty dog. He didn't realize, though, that huskies are very social …

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  4. College Closure Risk

    Mon 02 October 2017

    Summary

    College closure can cause significant distress to currently enrolled students as they have to transfer to a new school where their previous credits may not be honored. Given the huge public and private investments into post-secondary education, I developed a model that tries to predict whether a college would …

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  5. Beer Regression Machine Learning

    Tue 25 July 2017

    Summary

    Given my interest in home brewing and craft beer, I wanted to analyze the preferences of craft beer geeks, with the hope of using this information to help advise new breweries on which beers to include in their initial tap list. These consumers are novelty-seeking and will spread word …

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  6. Metis First Two Weeks Impression

    Sun 09 July 2017

    I recently enrolled in Metis, a 12-week data science bootcamp in San Francisco, to help me change careers from basic research/academia. For those that are unfamiliar with this education model, a bootcamp essentially is an short, intense program to help you obtain the skills and career resources to start …

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