One of the key data science questions that most interests me is how to detect hateful messages using natural language processing. It’s one of the reasons I chose to do an NLP project for my bootcamp capstone. In choosing the New York Times comments dataset for this project, I had…

During my time in data science bootcamp, one of the struggles I faced was sourcing interesting datasets. There are lots of places to find free data: Kaggle, the Awesome Datasets GitHub repository, UCI’s Machine learning repository. A month into my program I also signed up for Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data is…

One of the first things I learned as a data science student was that I should banish pie charts from my repertoire. Not only is it practical advice for novice data students, it’s a full-on meme. As new students, we spent an hour-long data visualization lecture sharing this inside joke…