Two guiding insights learned from Kaggle’s community — Last Saturday, I gave a keynote at Data Con LA 2018 (formerly Big Data Day LA), the largest data conference of its kind in Southern California. This is my talk in blog format. In my keynote, I shared two things Kaggle’s team has learned about what enables data scientists to…

Kaggle recently gave data scientists the ability to add a GPU to Kernels (Kaggle’s cloud-based hosted notebook platform). I knew this would be the perfect opportunity for me to learn how to build and train more computationally intensive models. With Kaggle Learn, Keras documentation, and cool natural language data from…

In this last few weeks I’ve learned how to analyze some of BigQuery’s cool public datasets using Python. If you’re not familiar, BigQuery makes it very easy to query Terabytes amounts of data in seconds. In this post, I’m going to share some tips and tricks for analyzing BigQuery data…

More powerful visualizations, more data sources, and more multiprocessing — Kaggle Kernels now gives people from across the world access to machines about as powerful as the one I’m typing from to work on data science projects right in their browsers. Check out the increased resources our team recently made available to the Kaggle community for free: Since it’s been…

Legends from the Hacker News Corpus dataset on Kaggle — Medium is the second most often shared domain on Hacker News. So it only feels appropriate to share my analysis of the Hacker News dataset from Kaggle here on Medium! In an R notebook kernel created on Kaggle, I replicated Anthony Goldblooms’s analysis of a smaller corpus of Hacker News…

From Bitcoin to Dogecoin, some of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies experienced a healthy shock a few days ago. Check out the screenshot from coinmarketcap.com taken on June 12th. In this post, I’m sharing a couple of cryptocurrency datasets that other Kagglers have published and recently refreshed with the latest…

How much you like open and accessible data probably depends on the kind of person you are — I happen to like it a lot! But, it turns out that at a national scale, more open and accessible government data is positively correlated with happiness. In this post, I want…

Analyzing the first 2016 presidential debate — What can we say about the words exchanged and the one-upping that happened in last night’s presidential throw down? Thanks to The Washington Post making the full, annotated transcript available online we can say a lot and have the data to back up our claims. But, my analysis won’t actually…

This blog post was originally published here. It is intended for non-technical audiences interested in data mining. When you hear someone sigh (or tweet) the phrase, “Adulting is soo hard,” you immediately know you’re listening to a Millennial. Ever the wordsmiths, Generation Y young adults have turned the noun adult…