Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceWeb Scraping Indeed.comIn this project, I wanted to showcase my abilities to get my own data through web scraping. The main goal of this project was to determine…Jun 6, 20172Jun 6, 20172
Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceGraduation RatesFor my final project for the coding bootcamp I completed, I wanted to look at something that combined my previous interests with my current…May 26, 2017May 26, 2017
Rowan LangfordLearn 75% of SQL with these 4 simple commandsSQL is quickly becoming one of the most in demand skills in the data science job market, and once you learn the syntax, it’s surprisingly…May 24, 2017May 24, 2017
Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceInstalling XGBoost on OSXOut project for this week was to work on an old kaggle competition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-west-nile-virus). XGBoost has been…May 22, 20172May 22, 20172
Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceCool Data Sets I’ve foundIn trying to do my capstone for the coding bootcamp I’m doing, I found a number of cool data sets which I thought I should share.May 19, 20172May 19, 20172
Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceNatural Language Processing on multiple columns in pythonWhen I first heard about NLP, I was amazed and a little overwhelmed. In the most basic terms, NLP or Natural Language Processing goes…Apr 19, 20175Apr 19, 20175
Rowan LangfordinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineStats Models vs SKLearn for Linear RegressionThis week, I worked with the famous SKLearn iris data set to compare and contrast the two different methods for analyzing linear regression…Apr 7, 20176Apr 7, 20176
Rowan LangfordinTowards Data ScienceThe Dummy’s Guide to Creating Dummy VariablesAs a math person, I try to quantify everything in my daily life, so when I see a data set with lots of qualitative variables, my mind…Mar 24, 201718Mar 24, 201718
Rowan LangfordAlgorithms in the Real WorldWhen most people hear the world algorithm they picture someone holed up in a room hacking into some government database. At least, that was…Mar 20, 2017Mar 20, 2017