A Look at COVID-19 Search Behavior in 2020 As a search engine optimization (SEO) specialist, I am always interested in understanding how people search online, and the motivations and reasons behind their searches. Therefore, I was excited to look at … Continue reading Explore Google Trends Data with the ‘gtrendsR’ Package in R
In my 365 Data Science training course on Tableau, I recently completed a project building a dashboard to visualizes reviews and sales data for an online marketplace audiobook company. Tableau is the perfect visualization tool to easily glean insights about … Continue reading What Can A Dashboard Tell You?
As a part of my data science journey, I have made it a point not only to learn the necessary programming skills but to also understand the industry, its applications, and more importantly, its consequences. One such consequence is the … Continue reading Data Bias in Society
I recently completed an online course on A/B Testing and as someone who works with websites, this was something I wanted to try out for myself. In this post, I practiced doing an A/B test in R while thinking through … Continue reading Practice with A/B Testing in R
Data has the power to do good, but data also has the power to do bad. We often forget that there are people are behind data. There are both people who control data and people who are represented by it. … Continue reading Data Feminism
Data Visualization in R A couple of weeks ago, someone on Twitter asked how to change the shape of the circle data points on a plot in R. This made me realize that while I usually change size or color … Continue reading Data Point Shapes and Colors with ggplot2
Do you spend a lot of time writing the same code over and over again while working on your data science projects? Well, learning to turn your long chunks of code into a simple reusable function may be exactly what … Continue reading Creating a Function in R
Even in the time of COVID-19, Meetups are still happening virtually! Last week I tuned into Dataiku‘s talk on “Recommender Systems and Deep Models at Etsy” presented by Moumita Bhattacharya, Senior Data Scientist at Etsy. This was an introduction to … Continue reading Recommender Systems at Etsy
How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place The perfect book for those looking for an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Author Janelle Shane explains how AI works, when it works … Continue reading You Look Like A Thing And I Love You
I recently learned about TF-IDF as a measure of a words importance to a document and thought it would be an interesting idea to investigate with keywords in SEO. While many professionals have discounted TF-IDF as an effective tool for … Continue reading TF-IDF for SEO with R
Journey to Data Scientist 