“Take my hand, we’ll make it I swear.” (Credit to Bon Jovi for their entry into my desperation song playlist).
As of today, we are two days away from officially making it to the halfway point of General Assembly’s Data Science Immersive program. It has been a wild ride, with the course moving at a breakneck speed the whole way through. One of my classmates recently posted a screenshot of our cohort on the first day of the program (oh, how young and innocent we were), and we really didn’t know what we were getting into. …
It’s hard to appreciate, but the rate of scientific and technological progression of the human race is increasing at an amazing, almost frightening pace. The computing power that sent us to the moon in the sixties can now fit comfortably in our pockets. My father was a computer enthusiast, and taught me how to build a computer when I was but a wee youth. In those days, half a gig of RAM was considered exorbitant; what could possibly need that much computing power? Now, of course, such numbers are considered quaint at best, if not laughable. Twenty years ago, I…
Hello everyone, my name is Jason, a newcomer into the data science field. To give some background, I graduated from Cornell University in 2010 with a Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering, and since then, have hopped around several different positions: government consultant, medical researcher, and even a year teaching in inner city Baltimore. However, despite the variety, none of these jobs felt like somewhere I enjoyed and would thrive in.
To understand my switch into data science, it’s helpful to know that one of the things I love are puzzles: kenkens (if you like sudoku, check these out!), crosswords…
