Swara Salih·Feb 10, 2017Predicting 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…
Swara Salih·Feb 7, 2017Rating 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…
Swara Salih·Jan 28, 2017From 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…
Swara Salih·Jan 19, 2017Simplexity is Key(Disclaimer: I didn’t coin the term “Simplexity.” That comes from Zendaya’s Instagram. Moving along…)
Swara Salih·Jan 9, 2017Getting 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…
Swara Salih·Jan 2, 2017Connecting 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…
Swara Salih·Dec 26, 2016A 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…
Swara Salih·Dec 12, 2016A 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…
Swara Salih·Dec 6, 2016The 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…
Swara Salih·Dec 2, 2016Project 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…
