From medical researcher to machine learning — I’m in the final week of 12 weeks long immersive data science program at General Assembly. When I tell people I’m taking a “class” or when I want to be more fancy and say “course” I see they don’t really understand what I mean. I don’t blame them. Class or…

Here’s your 101 to one of the most powerful data science tools Python — Intro — Python is a powerful and robust programming language with applications in highly diverse domains. You can use it form backend web development and advanced analytics to coding challenges (FizzBuzz). what is pandas — One of the crown jewels for working with data in Pythons is “Python Data Analysis…

The important step many people learning data science forget — So, you’re new to this data science thing. That’s cool. So am I. So far, you’ve managed to import pandas and even read in a CSV or two. That’s great. Getting your head around the tabular nature of dataframes is one big step. Let’s say you want to bring two…

Simple, but necessary — In your data science adventures you may come across interesting datasets. Be they from Kaggle or the newly launch Google dataset searcher (found here). More often than not, you’ll be scratching your head trying to make heads or tails of the data dictionary. “What does this (column title) mean?” I…

Fizz Buzz is a classic coding challenge used to screen would-be programmers in the industry. The challenge has many formulations, but always follows a framework such as: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three, print “Fizz” instead of the number, and…