OK So I was actually hoping to show this to you all long ago, and I kept coming up with more and more ideas for it, so it’s not going to be “ready” to reveal for a while, but I figured I’d go ahead and show it to you anyway. My main motivation is that… Continue reading My “Secret” Side Project, Revealed
Entry Level Data Analyst Skills
Between an interview from a local TV station about my job and going through the process of hiring someone onto our team, I’ve been thinking about what would be the bare minimum skills someone would need to have a chance at being hired as a data analyst. Maybe this would be a helpful list for… Continue reading Entry Level Data Analyst Skills
The Data Science Central “Incident”
I’m writing this post to respond both to what many of you saw Vincent Granville said about me on Facebook a couple days ago, which was brought to my attention yesterday: (in context) and to his apology this evening: I didn’t want to write a second post about Data Science Central, but after the huge… Continue reading The Data Science Central “Incident”
API and Market Basket Analysis
I was considering waiting until I’m done before posting about this project, but instead I thought I’d post my progress and plans while I think about the next steps. I posted earlier about using the UsesThis API to retrieve data about what other software people that use X software also use. I thought I was… Continue reading API and Market Basket Analysis
The Setup (usesthis.com) API
There’s a really interesting site usesthis.com AKA “The Setup” which interviews people and lists all of the gear that they use, including software. I found out that they have an API, (documented here) and I wanted to use my new API skills in Python to test it out! This one returns JSON unlike the NPR… Continue reading The Setup (usesthis.com) API
May 2015 #SoDS Storify
I wanted to capture the participation in the #SoDS (Summer of Data Science) hashtag somehow, so I decided to create a monthly Storify to keep up with all of your great tweets! [View the story “#SoDS May 2015” on Storify]
Monday Silliness
OK so I’m tired enough to be a little silly right now, and I think I’m finally feeling bold enough to share my parody songs inspired by these twitter exchanges: @matt_slotnick @dpatil haha i've said b4 that O'Jays "for the love of money" but w/"data data data…DATA" runs thru my head b4 projects :) —… Continue reading Monday Silliness
IPython, Requests, lxml, and the NPR API
Last week, I decided to learn how to use python to get data from an API. I started with the Codecademy “Introduction to APIs in Python” course, which got me oriented to how requests work, and in the subsequent NPR API lesson, specifically how the NPR stories API works. Certain parts of the course assumed… Continue reading IPython, Requests, lxml, and the NPR API
Relative Year SQL
I wrote this SQL code recently and wanted to share it here (in a modified form to simplify). This isn’t a “typical” SQL SELECT statement, because of how each row is checking the rest of the table relative to its own fiscal year value.
Summer of Data Science 2015
I was daydreaming about all of the data science learning I’m going to do this summer, now that I’m done with grad school (M.Eng. in Systems Engineering, yay!) – I’m so excited to get to choose what to work on, and not have homework deadlines in the middle of the work-week! I had a thought… Continue reading Summer of Data Science 2015