PinnedShafquat ArefeeninTowards Data ScienceTranslating Terms with LLMs (GPT and Vertex AI/Google Bard)Can LLMs like ChatGPT accurately make translations better than humans? What options of LLMs do we have to work with? Learn more about using…6 min read·Sep 21, 2023----
Shafquat ArefeenHow to Host an R Shiny App on AWS EC2 via Shiny Server and RStudio Server on a Windows MachineShinyapps.io is a great free resource for hosting your first Shiny app. However, the server space and computing power is quite limited…9 min read·Mar 4, 2020----
Shafquat ArefeenHow to Create an Interactive WebApp using R ShinyI am a Data Scientist for the City of Toronto and my objective for this project is to illustrate how citizens can use Open Data to create…10 min read·Mar 2, 2020----
Shafquat ArefeenUsing Python to Download Yahoo Fantasy Sports Data into a SpreadsheetI’m the self appointed data steward for the office hockey pool. We award small prizes for the team with the highest points every month…4 min read·Sep 26, 2019----
Shafquat ArefeenDynamic Pricing: How MLSE Controlled the Sale of Raptors NBA Finals TicketsSomeone paid $76,477.50 CAD for a pair of tickets to Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Toronto. The average household income in Toronto is…6 min read·May 30, 2019----
Shafquat ArefeenHow to Tag Products on Instagram with a Shopify Site in 10 StepsUPDATE: AS OF SEPTEMBER 2019 FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM HAVE CHANGED SOME OF THEIR FEATURES AND THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED. Feel free to try the…5 min read·Sep 12, 2018----
Shafquat ArefeenWas there a Toronto Real Estate Bubble?Was there a housing bubble in Toronto? Is it still here? And did the governmental intervention help ease the market?6 min read·May 14, 2018----
Shafquat ArefeeninTowards Data SciencePulling Stock Data and Creating an Efficient Frontier in ExcelI mentioned in a previous post on how to get (nearly) live stock data from Google Finance. However, if you start pulling data from…7 min read·Mar 21, 2018--1--1
Shafquat ArefeenHow to Merge WordPress With Static HTML FilesHow to make a Frankenstein of a site using WordPress and static HTML pages!3 min read·Nov 30, 2017----