A Real World Test of My Used Car Price Predictor That Anyone Can Use — Hello everyone, long time no see! A few months ago, you may have come across my blog where I discussed using Linear Regression to build a model to predict the price of a used car. If you missed it, you can find it here. To catch you all up, I…

Part 2! — Last week we did a brief overview of ProPublica’s NYPD files, which detailed citizen complaints against the NYPD. I’ve compiled a few more graphs for people to peruse through. As before, I am displaying simple graphs of the data I’ve gone through. I am drawing no conclusions nor making any…

An Initial Run Through — ProPublica recently released The NYPD Files, a database of records listing complaints filed against members of the NYPD from 1999–2020. This was a highly controversial move, as NYC Police, Firefighters, and Corrections Officers Unions are currently suing the state to keep these records secret. In any case, ProPublica has made…

What Iterrows are and how you can start using them today — Hello everyone, today we’re going to be going over some basic Pandas work. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Pandas has become an essential part of any Data Scientist or Data Analysts toolkit. It is a relatively low memory, multifunctional tool that allows us to view, analyze and manipulate…

Trees Are Your Friend — Let’s talk about Bayes’ Theorem. Bayes’ Theorem is a simple probability formula that is both versatile and powerful. It has been hailed as the hot new thing in Machine Learning and Data Science until Neural Networks came along and played the Kim Kardashian to Bayes’ Paris Hilton. …

Featuring my cats! — In my last post, I talked about the Confusion Matrix and its importance in helping us determine the accuracy of our models. This week we’ll take a look at the basic structure of Confusion Matrices and how they help us determine the accuracy of our models. Let’s Start From the Beginning… As I mentioned in…

Part 12! — Hello Hello everyone. Welcome to my hard hitting expose on what its like inside Flatiron School! Haha just kidding. I hope you all realize that I’m writing this so those you who are considering pursuing a career in Data Science and want to join a boot camp to do so…