New Experiments in Data Science
Monday June 5, 2021: Ames Housing Dataset I have decided that it would be interesting to try a real challenge. The Ames housing data set with about about 3,000 records and 80 features. It was designed to be a more realistic update to the Boston housing dataset. The great thing here is I really have no Read more about 8 Days of Data / Round 2:[…]
Saturday-Sunday June 3-4, 2021 Weekends are lighter and less intense I think this round I will fill my weekends with light reading and watching videos or listen to some podcasts (especially the Real Python Podcast) and doing some cleanup. Maybe I’ll look for some interesting news, like the Photonic Computer, which I discovered this weekend. Read more about 6 & 7 Days of Data / Round 2: Weekend Edition[…]
Friday June 2, 2021 Revisions on ML Diamond Prices I discovered that if I want to see my RMSE score on the kaggle competition (long since closed – but I want to compare with my previous submission) I have to submit my y_pred. However, in order to submit, no rows can be dropped. This means Read more about 5 Days of Data / Round2:[…]
Thurs July 1, 2021 Watched StatQuest videos They were very basic things about histograms and different distributions such as the normal and curve. The normal distribution, I know well by now. I understand that its prevalence is based on the Central Limit Theory which says that given enough samples all distributions tend towards a normal Read more about 4 Days of Data / Round 2:[…]
Wed June 30,2021: I finally got focused and sat down and dug into the dataset. I am going to follow along with another analysis of a similar dataset. I want to see different ways of doing things and experiment along the way. I got a few good visualizations. I took some time to observe some Read more about 3 Days of Data / Round 2:[…]
Tuesday June 29, 2021:Worked on setting up this blog yesterday. I will need to work on a few details such as the readability, maybe choose a different font, add some images. Applied to some jobs. Trying to find some startups and connect with real people. I am trying to find the appropriate way to handle Read more about 2 Days of Data / Round 2:[…]
Monday May 28th, 2021: I started my second round of the 66 Days of Data challenge. I was mostly trying to organize myself and get a log for all my activities. I am trying to keep a schedule and enter all my activities for each half hour so that I can guarantee that keep a Read more about 1 Day of Data / Round 2:[…]
My journey into the field of Data Science has taught me one essential lesson……dedication. It is the one thing I have understood about most endeavours in life, that is, if you want to succeed you have to be dedicated. I rushed into studying what I could about programming and was unable to take a clear Read more about My Journey Through the 66 Days of Data Challenge[…]
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce my dedication to a new path in my professional career. I had spent the 12 years as an English language teacher in Madrid, Spain and the last 2 of those years building up my own language service business. The little progess I had made was cut short in Read more about Update: New Blog will follow the field of Data[…]
What’re you telling me? What are you trying to say? This is something of a bugbear for intermediate students. I would like to tell you how to do it correctly. The problem is the structure. It is impossible to use these words correctly if you do use (or not use) the correct prepositions first. As Read more about Talk, Say, Tell (and Speak)[…]