And why data professionals need to be creative. On a quiet night a few weeks ago, I found myself staring intently at a pot of water as it boiled, removing all the contents from my wallet, and then using them to build a rendering of my dream house. Not what you did with your TuesdayContinue reading “The Bored and Brilliant Challenge”
Tag Archives: Problem Solving
Don’t be a Hammer Looking for a Nail
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.“Oh, you’re sure toContinue reading “Don’t be a Hammer Looking for a Nail”
Learning to Get Over Roadblocks in Coding
One of my biggest roadblocks with my first Python project, the Trail Usage Analysis project, was getting through some lines of code that took forever to run. Being inexperienced, at first I thought maybe I just needed to be patient, so I would hit “run” on my Jupyter notebook and then go cook dinner. Inevitably,Continue reading “Learning to Get Over Roadblocks in Coding”
Nerd on the Bus 