Miranda GibbonsinHealthcare in AmericaApplying Data Science to Epidemiology: modeling cholera outbreaks for the period 2010–2015As a final project for my data science boot camp, I decided to combine the skills I had learning during the course with my background in…May 30, 20171May 30, 20171
Miranda GibbonsWhy can’t I model my data in Python?I am currently working on a project that looks at incidence of cholera, broken down by country and by year. I’m interested in forecasting…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsTech empowerment: an ancillary benefit of attending a boot campI am currently in my 12th week of a boot camp for data science at General Assembly’s DC campus, and loving (almost) every minute of it…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsHow much DO data scientists get paid? (Part 2)So, through scraping the website Indeed.com over several days for thousands of job postings for data scientists, I found a staggering four…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsHow much DO data scientists get paid? (Part 1)In determining what features are most important in predicting salary for data science jobs, I first decided to separate salaries into two…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsDiving into the Global Terrorism Database (Part 2)One notable weakness of the dataset is the lack of data for the year 1993 — as records were being transferred over the years, all but 15%…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsDiving Into the Global Terrorism Database (Part 1)The Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the…May 22, 2017May 22, 2017
Miranda GibbonsUsing classification to predict iris species within the Iris datasetClassification is a method, within the context of machine learning, to determine to what group some object belongs based on known…Apr 5, 2017Apr 5, 2017
Miranda GibbonsWhat Inspired Me to Become A Data Scientist (a not-totally-serious post)(As an aside: while I was studying biology in college, I got very interested in the study and application of bioinformatics. Whether it is…Mar 27, 2017Mar 27, 2017
Miranda GibbonsListening to: Data Skeptic on data and criminal justiceData Skeptic’s episode on January 6th focused on two initiatives that apply data science methods to criminal justice reform: the Police…Mar 20, 2017Mar 20, 2017
