John CarrEvaluating Soccer Match WatchabilityOur society is becoming more and more focused on instant gratification. Almost everyone has the entire internet at their fingertips anytime…Feb 10, 2017Feb 10, 2017
John CarrFilling a Time Series Data Set With Preceding ValuesA time series set of data will have some increment of time as an index. I was working with a set of data for soccer matches and needed to…Feb 9, 2017Feb 9, 2017
John CarrAssigning Flags to Pandas DataframesThere may be a need to assign a binary flag to your data to indicate whether or not certain conditions are met. The most simple and…Feb 9, 2017Feb 9, 2017
John CarrHandling Data Formatted as Minutes and SecondsIf you have a dataset that includes the time or length of something that can be measured in minutes but provides granularity down to the…Feb 8, 2017Feb 8, 2017
John CarrGetting Unique Values Across Multiple Columns in a Pandas DataframeDuring the course of a project that I have been working on, I needed to get the unique values from two different columns — I needed all…Feb 8, 20172Feb 8, 20172
John CarrSumming Groups of Rows in PandasI recently encountered a problem where I needed to implement a counter in a Pandas dataframe that was unique to specific groupings of…Feb 6, 2017Feb 6, 2017
John CarrBridging the Gap From Educational to Practical Data ScienceFive weeks are now down in my course. For five weeks, I have been inundated by new topic after new topic. With so much information that we…Jan 3, 2017Jan 3, 2017
John CarrUnderstanding Regression from a Non-Technical BackgroundI had been awaiting the topic of statistics with some anxiety since beginning my course on data science. I possess a strong analytic…Dec 20, 2016Dec 20, 2016
John CarrLearning Data Visualization with PythonNow that I am several weeks into my program, one thing that I keep coming back to is thinking about how easy something would be to do in…Dec 12, 2016Dec 12, 2016
John CarrLearning Data Science with 2000 Billboard Top 100 ChartsFirst, I want to start with a quick introduction. My name is John Carr, and I recently started an immersive program to learn data science…Dec 1, 2016Dec 1, 2016