Let’s set the scene, I’m in week one of a Python-based data science bootcamp. I know the math, but I have never coded in Python before. We are given a lab that is built on indexing through dictionaries and lists. But I don’t even know enough coding to know that is called indexing. I ended up sitting next to my roommate for about an hour and talked about what each bracket meant. Fast forward ten weeks, I no longer even have to think when indexing, it comes so naturally.

This blog is for week one Maurie. Hopefully, this helps anyone…

Recently my Data Science Immersive class participated in the Ames Housing Data Kaggle Competition. The prompt was to take a training dataset and create a model to predict sales prices for a test dataset. In doing exploratory data analysis I discovered a high number of null values in the Lot Frontage feature. There were nulls in other features but generally they could be explained as the data collector leaving a feature empty rather than filling in a zero and this was easy to fix in the data and feel confident that assertion wasn’t going to influence the model.

But Lot…

I recently started a data science boot camp. This program is 40 hours of class per week plus homework. It’s very intense, but it’s also a really exciting dive back into the world of learning. I had previously worked data adjacent, but discovering how to make the data talk myself has been invigorating.

But….the program is only 23% women. I know this could be worse, but it’s the first truly male space that I have been in professionally or academically (a privilege I am aware most women haven’t been fortunate enough to experience). I was lucky to have attended a…