Data science projects, tools, and research

May 28, 2018

Digging into Data Science Tools: Anaconda

In the Digging into Data Science Series, I dive into specific tools and technologies used in data science and provide a list of resources you can find to learn more yourself. I keep posts in this series updated on a regular basis as I learn more about the…

Mark Nagelberg

May 13, 2018

Big Transportation Data for Big Cities Conference: My Takeaways

For a long time, I’ve been interested in transportation and urban economics. When I was doing my Masters, I planned to specialize in these areas if I continued on to a PhD. So, when I saw a job position open for Data…

Mark Nagelberg

Apr 2, 2018

Adventures in Open Data Hacking — Winnipeg Tree Data!

As a data guy, I’m pretty excited to see my city making a strong commitment to open data. The other day, I was sifting through some of this stuff to see what I could play with and what kind of interesting data mash-ups I could create…

Mark Nagelberg

Mar 17, 2018

Creating a Commonplace Book with Google Drive

Here’s a problem I’ve had for a long time: I would invest a lot of time into reading a great book, then inevitably as time passed the insights I gained would slowly disappear from my mind. This was pretty discouraging to me and seemed to defeat the…

Mark Nagelberg

Mar 3, 2018

How to Build an Automated, Large-Scale Fax Survey Campaign using Python, docx-mailmerge, and Phaxio

You can find the full code for this project here:
https://github.com/marknagelberg/fax-survey-with-phaxio