Rob BlattinTowards Data ScienceGetting Stuff Done at Hackathons for RookiesI thoroughly enjoyed my first hackathon (you can read about my experience about scope from a previous post). The opportunity arose through…Sep 28, 2019Sep 28, 2019
Rob BlattinThe StartupExplaining Afinn Sentiment AnalysisIn researching Afinn sentiment analysis, I came across a post on Stack Overflow with this simple request:Sep 21, 2019Sep 21, 2019
Rob BlattUse Python and Pandas to Append to a CSVI wasn’t able to find a simple solution for this, so here we go with this blog post. May as well make myself useful while my code is…Sep 9, 20191Sep 9, 20191
Rob BlattThinking About Yelp Reviews Over TimeDoes your Yelp review matter? It depends. I recently finished a very early version of my PIZZAmetrics project, which involved a lot of…Sep 3, 2019Sep 3, 2019
Rob BlattLearning the Value of Scope During a Game JamMaking a game during at the Flatiron School’s “Dark Science”-themed game jam helped me better understand classes and Object Oriented…Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Rob BlattThe Beginnings of an Exploration of Matplotlib and PyplotIn a previous blog post, I wrote about how I’ve always enjoyed tearing something apart (and sometimes reassembling it) to understand it…Jun 14, 2019Jun 14, 2019
Rob BlattMore Than One Way to Peel A PotatoLet’s talk about web scraping for a moment, because I thought it would be easy, it almost was!Jun 3, 2019Jun 3, 2019
Rob BlattA Lifetime of Breaking Things, Maybe Fixing Them, Brought Me to Data ScienceWhen I was a kid, I was the kind of kid that took things apart, but not in that “kid genius” way. I liked tinkering with things. I never…May 20, 2019May 20, 2019
Rob BlattWeapon Popularity, Balance, and Data Science in Destiny 2The Basics of Destiny 2May 1, 2019May 1, 2019