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…

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 +…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

“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…

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. …

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…