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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Mar 4, 2017

Final Report for Outreachy Internship

It’s crazy how fast the past 3 months have gone by, but I’m in the final week of my Outreachy internship with the Wikimedia Foundation! What I’ve been up to The week after the Wikimedia Developer Summit, I spent 3 days working from WMF headquarters in San Francisco. It was great to meet and work…

Internships

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Final Report for Outreachy Internship
Final Report for Outreachy Internship
Internships

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Jan 13, 2017

Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit

The Outreachy Internship program grants a $500 travel allowance to each intern to attend a relevant conference or workshop of their choice. I attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit this week in San Francisco, CA at the Golden Gate Club. This is an annual gathering for technical contributors, third-party developers, users…

Wikipedia

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Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
Wikipedia

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Jan 9, 2017

Diving Into Wikimedia Foundation’s Data

My second data analysis internship project with the Wikimedia Foundation includes generating (at least) 3 readership metrics reports. This report aggregates various data sources to display critical information about Wikimedia projects such as daily pageview counts, the percentage of desktop vs. mobile traffic, and the number of daily iOS +…

Open Data

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Diving Into Wikimedia Foundation’s Data
Diving Into Wikimedia Foundation’s Data
Open Data

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Dec 23, 2016

Outreachy Internship: Project 0

If you’ve read a Wikipedia article before, you may have noticed that it’s separated into sections like “Career”, “Plot” or “References”. The purpose of these section headings is to organize the content on each page. Which of these section headings is most popular? This is the question I answered in…

Wikipedia

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Outreachy Internship: Project 0
Outreachy Internship: Project 0
Wikipedia

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Dec 5, 2016

My Outreachy Internship

Since I’ve started coding, I’ve released all my completed projects under the GNU General Public License (open source) on Github. I hadn’t heard of the term open source until I started getting technical and since then I’ve been intrigued by this idea. Lots of people are incredibly passionate about open…

Open Source

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My Outreachy Internship
My Outreachy Internship
Open Source

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Jul 27, 2016

Can Wikipedia predict the 2016 US Presidential Election?

Here’s what I learned while exploring Wikipedia Clickstream Data: Wikipedia could have predicted the Republican nominee many months ago. Bernie Sanders is much more researched than Hillary Clinton. People are more curious about the 2016 presidential candidates’ personal lives than their stances. Google > Facebook > Twitter for politics. Neither…

Python

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Can Wikipedia predict the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Can Wikipedia predict the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Python

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Jul 22, 2016

Behind the scenes of Word2Vec on Harry Potter

While building the Harry Potter Word2Vec web application, I tried to hide all of the technical complexity from the end user. I wanted to make the user’s experience as simple and streamlined as possible. …

Web Development

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Behind the scenes of Word2Vec on Harry Potter
Behind the scenes of Word2Vec on Harry Potter
Web Development

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·Jul 22, 2016

Word2Vec on Harry Potter

“You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” -J.R. Firth Over the past few months, I’ve become fascinated by how machine learning applies to natural language problems. In the earlier Harry Potter Text Analysis project, I wrote Python code to extract insights. By using machine learning, I can…

Machine Learning

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Word2Vec on Harry Potter
Word2Vec on Harry Potter
Machine Learning

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·May 25, 2016

Internet in Palau

This $9 scratch-off card is the gateway to the internet for the people of Palau. Over the past few months, I’ve taken for granted that knowledge is only a few Google searches away. …

Internet

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Internet in Palau
Internet in Palau
Internet

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Published in Becoming a Data Analyst

·May 6, 2016

Harry Potter Text Analysis

The seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in July 2007 and sold 11 million copies worldwide within 24 hours. This makes it the fastest selling book in history . I was one of those dedicated fans who stood in…

Harry Potter

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Harry Potter Text Analysis
Harry Potter Text Analysis
Harry Potter

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