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Apache Spark: A Conceptual Orientation

What is it? Why is it important?

7 min readOct 2, 2019

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Apache Spark: A Conceptual Orientation

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Alexander Shropshire
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Towards Data Science

Introducing PeerVest: Using Machine Learning to Recommend Investments in P2P Lending

A free Flask app to help you pick the best loan pool on a risk-reward basis

8 min readSep 10, 2019

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Towards Data Science

Capturing Context in Emotion AI: Innovations in Multimodal Video Sentiment Analysis

Humanizing Emotion Classification with a Deep Neural Network that Captures Multimodal Contextual Information

10 min readJun 7, 2019

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Capturing Context in Emotion AI: Innovations in Multimodal Video Sentiment Analysis

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Towards Data Science

Stories from the World of Municipal Analytics

Our cities are getting smarter

10 min readJun 2, 2019

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Stories from the World of Municipal Analytics

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Alexander Shropshire
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Towards Data Science

Exploring Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Using the PRAW API Wrapper

A brief PRAW tutorial for future Reddit analysts

8 min readMay 15, 2019

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Exploring Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Using the PRAW API Wrapper

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Alexander Shropshire
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Towards Data Science

Hypothesis Testing European Soccer Data Using Python

Home Field Advantage, Ideal Formations, and Inter-League Attributes

8 min readMay 10, 2019

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Hypothesis Testing European Soccer Data Using Python

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Human Development & National Eco-Footprints: A Visual Orientation

Using Plot.ly and Bubbly

10 min readMay 1, 2019

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Human Development & National Eco-Footprints: A Visual Orientation

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Towards Data Science

A New Data Scientist’s Reflections on Culture, Progress, & Technology

And how learning a new skillset can .merge(intrinsic, extrinsic) motivations

13 min readApr 23, 2019

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A New Data Scientist’s Reflections on Culture, Progress, & Technology

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Alexander Shropshire
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Towards Data Science

Transforming Categorical Data for Usability in Machine Learning Predictions

A Quick Example Using King County, WA Zip Codes, Latitude, and Longitude

7 min readApr 19, 2019

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Transforming Categorical Data for Usability in Machine Learning Predictions

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Alexander Shropshire

Alexander Shropshire

Senior Data Science Leader Transforming Product, Finance, and GTM Data ➜ 💰 | Python, R, SQL, BI, Machine Learning | Ex-Brex, Legendary, Vevo | Let’s Connect!

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