Bake, Craft, Code, Life
I like to spend my Sundays baking. It’s amazing to me how from raw ingredients you can make something so delicious and so drastically different. Today, I made a healthier version of banana bread. You are cutting at least a quarter of the calories, so, you’re welcome. The calorie cut comes from using light sour…
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Please, tell me I am not the only who who acts this way, Step 1: Code is running on the first try. I am a genius. Step 2: Question everything. HOW did it run on the first try? Step 3: Realize there is a bug. Freak out. Step 4: Question your career choices. Step 5:…
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A while ago I was tasked with packaging up a bunch of my functions and at the time I was like no, no, I ain’t doing that, I ain’t spending hours figuring it out, I have to keep going. 6 months later I needed to do a similar analysis and I was fucked because I…
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First and foremost, let me make clear that this is NOT a political post. I wanted to create a simple tutorial about on sentiment analysis using comments from a Facebook page. The current POTUS stirs everyone’s emotion and this is a great sample to try a quick and dirty sentiment analysis algorithm. If you want…
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Warning: The opinions expressed here are my own and won’t represent everyone’s grad school journey. Switching career paths is scary and difficult, but not impossible. Here’s my transition story from astronomy to data science that I hope helps you find your place in the data science community. I graduated from graduate school in late 2014.…
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Things Grow 