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·Feb 28, 2019

Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Lifting your understanding of MCMC to an intermediate level — When I learned Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) my instructor told us there were three approaches to explaining MCMC. “Basic: MCMC allows us to leverage computers to do Bayesian statistics. Intermediate: MCMC is a method that can find the posterior distribution of our parameter of interest. Specifically, this type of…

Machine Learning

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Machine Learning

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Jan 22, 2019

What do those brackets mean? A lesson on indexing in python.

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…

Programming

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What do those brackets mean? A lesson on indexing in python.
What do those brackets mean? A lesson on indexing in python.
Programming

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Dec 13, 2018

Imputing Null Values with Regression

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…

Machine Learning

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Imputing Null Values with Regression
Imputing Null Values with Regression
Machine Learning

4 min read


Nov 26, 2018

Creating spaces for women in a male dominated program

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. …

Women In Tech

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Women In Tech

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