Mark MummertMoving Projects from Github Enterprise to GithubThis is a quick and dirty guide to moving projects that are stored on your local machine in a github enterprise repo to a ‘regular’ github…Sep 5, 2017Sep 5, 2017
Mark MummertSubmitting Work in GithubWorking with git and github can be very confusing for first time users, so I’ve created this guide to help my GA students (and others)…Jun 23, 2017Jun 23, 2017
Mark MummertModeling State Legislative Agendas with Latent Dirichlet AllocationQuestionsMay 26, 2017May 26, 2017
Mark MummertLatent Dirichlet Allocation ResourcesFor my capstone project I used latent Dirichlet Allocation to model topics from a group of text I was using. In the course of figuring our…May 24, 2017May 24, 2017
Mark MummertPredicting America’s Next Drag SuperstarWhat can classification models tell us about who’s got the Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent to win RuPaul’s drag race?May 24, 2017May 24, 2017
Mark MummertThe Rules of Data PresentationI’ve given a lot of presentations on data science projects over the last few months, and along the way I’ve discovered and been told a few…May 21, 20171May 21, 20171
Mark MummertWebscraping Indeed.com with PythonFor my third General Assembly Data Science Immersive project I was asked to scrape indeed.com for data science job descriptions. I used…May 8, 20171May 8, 20171
Mark MummertSo you don’t want to use regex…For one of my general assembly projects, a webscraper I wrote about earlier, I had to extract a salary number from a string. This sounds…May 1, 2017May 1, 2017
Mark MummertUsing Patsy for Statistical ModelingPython has a very useful library called Patsy that lets programmers create formulas to use with statsmodels regressions. These formulas…Apr 10, 2017Apr 10, 2017
Mark MummertIowa Liquor DataFor our second Data Science Immersive project we were asked to work with a huge spreadsheet of data from the Iowa Liquor board containing…Apr 4, 2017Apr 4, 2017