Swara SalihPredicting a Presidential ElectionElection forecasting has taken a major blow from the public recently, for obvious reasons. “It’s the end of industrial polling!” some have…Feb 10, 2017Feb 10, 2017
Swara SalihRating a ClassifierClassification methods in data science allow us to group our data into different classes based on shared features, but how do we go about…Feb 7, 2017Feb 7, 2017
Swara SalihFrom Overwhelmed to “Whelmed”At times, this cohort could feel overwhelming due to the sheer volume of material I would need to learn and practice. Recently, however, as…Jan 28, 2017Jan 28, 2017
Swara SalihSimplexity is Key(Disclaimer: I didn’t coin the term “Simplexity.” That comes from Zendaya’s Instagram. Moving along…)Jan 19, 2017Jan 19, 2017
Swara SalihGetting Used to Cleaning Up DataOn the first day of class, our instructors told us that “exploratory data analysis” would constitute something like 90% of our work. It’s…Jan 9, 2017Jan 9, 2017
Swara SalihConnecting Theoretical and Practical ModelingIn the process of learning to build models in Python, I’ve had to adjust my conception of how to find relationships between variables…Jan 2, 2017Jan 2, 2017
Swara SalihA Complex Problem That Requires a Simple SolutionIn writing about policy and politics, I’ve found that no problem or situation will ever have an easy solution or answer. As such, people…Dec 26, 2016Dec 26, 2016
Swara SalihA Matter of Self-RelianceData Science is unlike any sort of course or field of study I’ve immersed in before, not only due to its subject matter, but also in its…Dec 12, 2016Dec 12, 2016
Swara SalihThe Crux of Data SciencePeople hire data scientists to make predictions about the future and thus verify a course of action to benefit their firm. The fundamental…Dec 6, 2016Dec 6, 2016
Swara SalihProject Euler: A Numerical Puzzle With PythonProject Euler is an online coding challenge that presents various math challenges for data analysts to solve using Python. I took on two…Dec 2, 2016Dec 2, 2016