And the First Week of the Rest of My Life “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape If you have read my first blog post, you know that I have taken General Assembly’s data science boot camp, known as Data Science Immersive. It…

After my last blog post about Pandas, I thought it might be a good idea to take a step back and write a post about the NumPy library. NumPy (short for Numerical Python) is “the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python” and it is the library Pandas, Matplotlib and…

After going over some basic Python in my previous post (clickable link), I want to write a little about Python functions. A function is a bundle of code, that takes an argument (or arguments), does something with the argument(s) and returns an output. Functions are used to write a more…

Hi everyone! Welcome back. After the pre-work I’ve done to prepare for my data science immersive class, the program finally started. The first week was mostly about the basics — solidifying the material from the pre-work I’ve discussed a little on my previous blog post (clickable link). We have gone…

First Steps in a New Field in a New Country It always seemed so exciting in the movies to move to a new country and begin a new life. While I had thought of leaving Israel in the past, it was as a distant dream and never a reality. Well, my dream became a reality when I met my wife…