Sometimes it pays to go back to basics. Data science is a massive, complicated field with seemingly endless topics to learn about. But in our rush to learn about the latest deep learning trends, it's easy to forget that there are…
Prophet is an open source forecasting tool built by Facebook. It can be used for time series modeling and forecasting trends into the future. Prophet is interesting because it's both sophisticated and quite easy to use, so it's po…
The "big data" technology landscape is changing really, really fast. One consequence of this is that it's hard to find good training resources since they become outdated so quickly. I wanted to get some baseline comfor…
I try to experiment with a lot of different technologies. I’ve found that having experience with a diverse set of concepts, languages, libraries, tools etc. leads to more robust thinking when trying to solve a problem. If you do…
This post is part of a series covering the exercises from Andrew Ng's machine learning class on Coursera. The original code, exercise text, and data files for this post are available here. Part 1 - Simple Linear Regression Part 2…