Diego Rodriguez·Dec 21, 2017Analyzing Marketing Data in PythonPrior to studying at General Assembly, I was a data analyst for Centro’s DC media services and operations team, and before that I served as…
Diego Rodriguez·Dec 21, 2017Three Ways to Get the Most out of Principal Component AnalysisWhile completing a recent assignment exploring principal component analysis (PCA), I looked for ways to leverage it beyond dimensionality…
Diego Rodriguez·Dec 17, 2017A Use Case for Regular ExpressionsRegular expressions (or regex) is a godsend. If you need a tool to find repeating patterns of text, use regex.
Diego Rodriguez·Dec 4, 2017Every Possible Way to Rename Columns in Pandas (That I Could Think Of)Every budding data scientist I know has one simple thing that they forget how to do. For me, I constantly forget the various ways to rename…
Diego Rodriguez·Dec 3, 2017A Former Marketer’s Struggle To Understand Twitter (Just a Little Bit Better) Using Natural…First, the following content will be expanded into a series of posts over the next few days. Why? My class and I are tackling a new project…
Diego Rodriguez·Oct 15, 2017What I’ve learned about data science after three weeks as a data science studentIn early September, I quit a job as a data analyst and enrolled in an immersive data science (DS) program at an academic startup called…
Diego Rodriguez·May 11, 2016How Saturday Night Live can Win the Branded Content GameWhen I caught wind of Saturday Night Live’s plans to trim out 30 percent of commercials from its programming next season, I immediately…