Data science for fun and profit
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Another mass shooting and the sick sad tragedy is again in full swing. How could this have been prevented? Did anyone see it coming? Can we predict and intervene before the next one happens? These …
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This week I pull, clean, analyze, and map information on school shootings in the United States. I approach this topic in solidarity with the March for our Lives demonstration and to demonstrate that …
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Stack Overflow rolled out the results of their annual 2018 survey. Over 100,000 developers participated in the survey making it a comprehensive view of software development at this moment in time, …
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Follow along as I plot College Scorecard data in a jupyter notebook using pandas and folium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mQU6g7R4g&t=348s …
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Here's the podcast episode of this article. Enjoy! Matching is an important issue in modern life, so much so that the 2012 Nobel prize in Economics was awarded for their advancement. Finding the …
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This is the first video in a series exploring the amazing datasets that are part of Awesome Public Datasets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W652sY42hzE …
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Just as electricity made lighting much more affordable—a given level of lighting now costs around 400 times less than it did in 1800—so AI will make forecasting more affordable, reliable and widely available. ~The Economist