“I need math assistance!” Few words make me more willing to drop everything else I’m doing at work and hear out a colleague’s problems. Recently that is exactly the Teams chat I received at 4:43 pm. “I live for these moments,” I responded, only half-joking. The problem was this: If we know that our fareContinue reading “The Geometric Distribution Applied to Transit”
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Prepare Well for your First Side Project
A while ago I finished my first big personal data science project with Python, where I applied what I was learning to a real question I had. Well, it may never be completely finished, but at some point I realized you have to decide you’ve done more or less what you set out to do,Continue reading “Prepare Well for your First Side Project”
Finding a Good Data Set to Play With
The best way to really learn data analytics is to apply what you’ve learned in classes and videos to process and analyze real, messy, complicated data. You may be lucky and have the resources and time to do this all at work. If not, you’ll likely be doing side projects in your spare time toContinue reading “Finding a Good Data Set to Play With”
Nerd on the Bus 