Blogs
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May 2019Network Theory and Game of Thrones - A Perfect Combination
Here's an analysis of Game of Thrones data to identify character importance, factions, and gender interactions using Network Theory and Python. Game of Thrones is arguably one of the biggest pop culture phenomena to hit the public consciousness in the last decade. Since the hype for the f...
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May 2019Time Series: the Quintillion Business Applications You Forgot About
Time Series Forecasting is a much humbler yet effective technique that's been quietly building up almost a quintillion business applications.While the world is trying to force deep learning onto every problem imaginable, big or small, there’s a more effective technique to help improve busines...
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May 2019Time Series in Python Tutorials
Learn how to evaluate time series model predictions, build an ARIMA model, and evaluate predictions using mean absolute error. If you've read any of my previous posts, you'll know I don't call myself a data scientist. I would call myself a data enthusiast. Being in marketing, I make ...
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April 2019High Dimensional Data: Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality with Python
Dimensionality reduction is an absolutely necessary skill for every data scientist to have. Break the curse of dimensionality with Python. What's common in most of us is that we are used to seeing and interpreting things in two or three dimensions to the extent that the thought of thinkin...
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April 2019Attending the Instructional Design Summit at the 2019 Open edX Conference
The 2019 Open edX Conference included one of the best seminars/workshops for content creators: The Instructional Design Summit.When your Uber driver drops you off at the back entrance, you don't really know what to expect. You see everything in the reverse order you're supposed too, but you get th...
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April 2019Is it necessary to go to a university to become a Data Scientist?
The number of applications for programs in Data Science has increased. With various online resources, is it necessary to go to a university for Data Science? Data Science is one of the fastest-growing fields, and the data shows this trend will continue into the near futu...
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March 2019Unleash the potential of Recommender Systems
Recommender systems are one of the most popular algorithms in data science today. Learn how to build a simple movie recommender system. Recommender systems possess immense capability in various sectors ranging from entertainment to e-commerce. Recommender Systems have proven to be instrum...
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March 2019Top Python Packages for Data Science and How to Best Use Them
Finding the top python packages and libraries that aren't only popular, but get the job done isn't easy. Here's a list to help you out.Out of all the Python scientific libraries and packages available, which ones are not only popular but the most useful in getting the job done? To help you filter...
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March 2019Supercharge your Python Plots with Zero Extra Code
Graphs play a very important role in the data science workflow. Learn how to create dynamic professional-looking plots with Plotly.py.We use plots to understand the distribution and nature of variables in the data and use visualizations to describe our findings in reports or presentation...
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March 2019R vs Python: Which is better for Data Science?
R and Python remain the most popular data science programming languages. But which of these languages is better?As data science becomes more and more applicable across every industry sector, you might wonder which programming language is best for implementing your models and analysis. If you atten...