Design, Code, Life
As a female in tech, I am no stranger to sexist remarks. I’ve been on the receiving end of this since my teenage years. It’s almost a rite of passage for girls out there even in 2023. In my professional career, I have a whole collection of stories I could share. Aside from my career…
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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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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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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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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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Unpopular opinion: LDA models can be problematic. tl:dr; LDA models are often overused and misused. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a very common model used in natural language processing with the intent of clustering some amount of text data into topics. LDAs have become the staple natural language processing model with hundreds of tutorials…
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Things Grow 