Getting Started with Python If you’re thinking about getting started with Python, this is the post for you. The truth is, before you can actually start coding in Python, there is some information and set up that you should know … Continue reading Introduction to Python Part 1
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
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
Last week’s R-Ladies NYC Meetup was one focused on productivity and presentability. The evening consisted of two talks, both by Biostaticians of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with Jessica talking about her timetrackR Shiny app and Margie talking about the … Continue reading R-Ladies NYC: timetrackR and {gtsummary}
Last week, I attended a Dataiku screening of “Data Science Pioneers,” a documentary about data science and its role in our evolving technological society. The documentary brought to light many valid points regarding society’s perspective of data science, the field … Continue reading Data Science Pioneers: Conquering the Next Frontier
The job of an SEO is to ensure that websites are optimized and performing well on search engines for target keywords (the words people are using to search online). This involves performing keyword research on lists of target keywords to … Continue reading Keyword Clustering for SEO with R
Journey to Data Scientist 