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”

How To Avoid Park-Goers In a Pandemic

Or, if you’re just anti-social When the pandemic started and everything was upended, I was curious how it was affecting people’s use of city parks. Anecdotally, I knew I was using them more than usual, because there wasn’t much else to do, and I still needed to exercise. It seemed like other people were too.Continue reading “How To Avoid Park-Goers In a Pandemic”

Review: IBM Data Science Specialization on Coursera

I recently completed the IBM Certificate in Data Science on Coursera, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) platform. There are so many ways to learn data science these days, so I hope this review will help others looking for a starting place.  The Basics  10 course certificate program includes courses on Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Machine Learning,Continue reading “Review: IBM Data Science Specialization on Coursera”