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I love to read, a lot. It is rare to find me without a novel or kindle on my hand. In fact, I often can’t sit still and watch a show because I can’t keep my hands off my book. I was so excited to find this GoodReads dataset because for a while now I…
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We’ve all heard about caching. Usually, we associate caching with web development (at least I did); a way to temporarily store data as you browse the internet. But, “temporarily” store data can be use on so many different applications outside of web development. Recently, I encountered an optimization problem where I had to run the…
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I’ve always been a sucker for self-care. Put it in a pretty package and I’ll most likely buy it. Add the words balm or dewy, the chances of me buying it go up by 100%. A problem? Meh. A hobby? Maybe, ha! As a teenager, I was guilty of using the “favorites” of the early…
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Using syntax alone is NOT by any means a recommendable way to determine “feelings”. This is just intended as a fun exercise. It is not uncommon, at least, it hasn’t been uncommon in my years in data science that a stakeholder will come to you with the most impossible, unrealistic data need |…
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Word clouds have easily become the new pie charts. For definition purposes, a world cloud a simply a way to visualize the word frequencies from a piece of text. The most common terms are often shown in the different colors or larger sizes. You can make a world cloud slightly more complexed by using the…
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A while ago I saw this article from The Pudding where they ranked rappers based on the size of their song vocabulary. I love rap and the Puerto Rican equivalent, reggeaton, and I wanted to recreate a similar analysis for the genre. Reggaeton was always considered a “low” quality music genre with incorrect Spanish, vulgar…
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I am obsessed with skincare…like…easily 25% of my paycheck goes to trying out new products. I am always on Sephora.com or Dermstore.com, you name it. I am also always watching skincare content on YouTube and I am pretty much an rss feed for Reddit’s r/SkincareAddiction. In fact, I recently made a post doing a deep…
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If you’re in the data science or machine learning field you have heard and, probably, used Jupyter notebooks. People love to love them, people love to hate them. Jupyter notebooks can be magnificent tools for data analysis, data story building and model testing. They can even be great tools, if you’ve set them up correctly, for a development platform (see…
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Color is everywhere around us. It makes us feel certain ways. Sometimes it pushes to buy things, eat things – it often dictates our actions. Color usage is everywhere, in powerpoint, in infographics, in marketing, etc. One of the ways we can study color is through color theory. Color theory refers to how we perceive…
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Some of you may or may not know I am obsessed with skincare. Now, you may think I am exaggerating, maybe she only has a couple products. I have 50-75 products. It’s a problem. It goes without saying, I do not put that many products on a given day. My routine consists of 6-10 steps…
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Things Grow 