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56 Books, My Literary Journey in 2018
According to goodreads, I read 56 books in 2018. This was 4 over my goal of 52 books! I spent a lot of the year reading books from my never ending list of tralev books but I also took some … Continue reading
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Converting CSV to a SQLite Database
As a part of my data science course on EdX we have been working with a lot of csv files. I spoke SQL long before I spoke Pandas and I find that it is much easier to do initial exploration … Continue reading
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Emerging trends in technology provided by ThoughtWorks.
A classmate shared this link with us in regards to visualizations that are powerful. I’ve not seen this report before, but it provides so much insight into the pulse of enterprise software development. The Technology Radar is our thoughts on … Continue reading
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Make A Symbolic Link to Your iCloud Drive
If you use iCloud Drive to store documents and also use the terminal quite a bit, it might be handy to add a symbolic link to iCloud into your home directory. This will allow you to easily make your way … Continue reading
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Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
As a part of the visualization section of the python for data science course on EdX we watched this awesome video showing the health and wealth correlation of 200 countries over the last 200 years. This is a fascinating look … Continue reading
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German Mini Van
I booked a mini van Get hyped I got this message from my friend tzeejay after he invited us to visit Yosemite with him over the Thanksgiving break. I was looking forward to the trip all week since I have … Continue reading
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Sofia Heisler No More Sad Pandas
In this excellent talk, Sofia Heisler explains how to optimize Pandas code. There is a striking difference between a naive implementation and an optimized one, a nearly 500x improvement. She also described two very useful benchmarking functions, timeit, and line_profiler. … Continue reading
Six Foot Long Scorpions
There was a super interesting article in the SF Chronicle today about scorpions. It profiled Lauren Esposito, an arachnologist at the California Academy of Sciences, and her work studying these creatures. The venom found in some species of scorpions has been … Continue reading
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Installing Python Packages for DSE200x with pip
Python for Data Science is an introductory course that provides an overview of various tooling that exists in the python world that is useful for data science purposes. This includes things like: Jupyter Notebooks The numpy library The scipy library … Continue reading
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Data Science Helps Fight Wildfires
I’m taking a data science course on EdX as a part of the UCSD MicroMaster program. I’ve always been curious in data science from a cursory point of view, but now I want to use it to analyze and understand … Continue reading
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