Pairing as a data scientist
Jul 18, 2021
Pair programming, or pairing, is a common practice among software engineers, but has not been uniformly adopted in data science at this point. Some workplaces have zero pairing as standard between data scientists, whereas others use it as they would with other coding roles.
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Replacing the Iris dataset
May 23, 2021
Last year, I wrote about the Iris dataset, which is used a lot in data science training and coding examples but was originally published in the Journal of Eugenics. I don’t want to use it now I am aware of that.
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Using {tidymodels} with the food tracker dataset
Mar 6, 2021
Using the data from my food tracker diary, I’m going to explore {tidymodels}, which offers a route into modelling and machine learning in the R ecosystem, curating relevant packages. I haven’t used it before so this is pretty new to me.
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Feature engineering with dates
Feb 27, 2021
Remember my last post? I was talking about my 2020 resolution to eat less meat, and how I’d tracked it in my bullet journal. The data that I have is…well, on first glance there’s not much to it.
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Page to plot
Jan 2, 2021
It’s the second day of January 2021, and a fitting time to be making resolutions. It’s also the time to look back at commitments made at the start of last year and check in on how they went.
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Reflections on 2020
Dec 19, 2020
It’s the last month of 2020, and what a joy the year has been. Life is now pretty same-y, and whatever I’m doing, I’m doing it from home. That makes it easy to feel like nothing is changing, so I wanted to spend a few minutes actively reflecting on what I’ve done and learnt this year.
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Hashtag hashtag analysis
Nov 15, 2020
We’re back looking at tweets! This is going to be my last post in this series. In my last two posts, I looked at how often curators of @WeAreRLadies tweet.
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Tweet timing
Nov 2, 2020
I explored how often curators of @WeAreRLadies tweet in my last post. In this post, I go a little further with this analysis and explore how activity changes depending on the day of the week and time of day.
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Analysing Twitter data
Oct 24, 2020
Earlier this month, I was the curator of @WeAreRLadies for a week. They have a different person tweeting every seven days; I was in charge in the week commencing 5th October.
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Making it work from home
Sep 26, 2020
It’s been about six months since the UK first went into lockdown. Many of us around the world have drastically changed our lifestyles and ways of doing things. I’ve become much better at working from home and there are lots of things I prefer about it.
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