PinnedRebecca RoseninThe StartupPredicting the ElectionThe 2016 election took a lot of people by surprise. This is due in a large part to the miscalculations of voting predictions made around…Nov 8, 2019Nov 8, 2019
Rebecca RosenHypothesis Testing in Python (1/3)This blog will work backwards with a pre-existing set of data obtained from the Detroit’s Open Data Portal. Read more about the background…Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020
Rebecca RosenDetroit’s Housing Data ExperimentI recently moved from Detroit, MI to Brooklyn, NY. Both of these cities are well known for cultural richness, as well as many problematic…Mar 10, 20201Mar 10, 20201
Rebecca RoseninTowards Data ScienceNYC OpenData Hackathon: Pay ParityThis weekend I had the pleasure of participating in a “Love Ya Like A Sis” hackathon, as a part of NYC OpenData week. In a similar style…Mar 3, 2020Mar 3, 2020
Rebecca RosenA Focused Example of Panda’s DataFrame.merge FunctionDuring a side project, I found myself running into troubles with the pandas.DataFrame.merge function. I saw duplication of some rows and…Feb 25, 2020Feb 25, 2020
Rebecca RoseninThe StartupFiscal Credit, Social TrustChina’s “Social Credit System” has been a topic of conversation in the West since 2015, when an ACLU article warned agains its potential…Oct 28, 2019Oct 28, 2019
Rebecca RoseninTowards Data ScienceMissing Data and ImputationMissing data can skew findings, increase computational expense, and frustrate researchers. In the recent years, dealing with missing data…Oct 14, 20191Oct 14, 20191
Rebecca Rosen“Double Baking” Beliefs and Integrating Systems with FRDMAs a student of multiple interdisciplinary sciences, I am constantly thinking about ways to integrate.Sep 27, 2019Sep 27, 2019
Rebecca RoseninLevel Up Coding“Weapons of Math Destruction” Examples and ImpactsIn researching “Data for Good” practices throughout the world, you will find Cathy O’Neil’s book, Weapons of Math Destruction, come up…Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019