{mapBliss} is a package initially developed in my attempt to copy the offerings made available by a site (since defunct) called Atlas.co. Recently I was talking about the package in a group chat and someone reached out to me sharing that he traveled to 43 states in the United States and shared with me a… Continue reading RObservations #50: a journey across the United States with {mapBliss}
Tag: Python
BensstatsTalks#3: 5 Tips for Landing a Data Professional Role
Disclaimer: This was originally written on my Medium blog here, so the formatting is a little different from my usual style. If you just got started or have been working a while in a data role, the jargon thrown around can sometimes get overwhelming with all the things to need to learn or be on top… Continue reading BensstatsTalks#3: 5 Tips for Landing a Data Professional Role
BensstatsTalks #2: Two hard truths you need to know before breaking into tech
Disclaimer: This was originally written on my Medium blog here, so the formatting is a little different from my usual style. I have been blogging for nearly two years and with it I got to learn a lot about writing good code, challenges that arise (particularly with data science) and how to navigate them. What… Continue reading BensstatsTalks #2: Two hard truths you need to know before breaking into tech
RvsPython #6: LinkedIn has spoken!
Introduction Over the past while with my time on LinkedIn, I got to have exposure to many people from many different lines of work. I also managed to have carved a space for myself there where I can post about Data Science topics and share my blogs along the way. There have always been posts… Continue reading RvsPython #6: LinkedIn has spoken!
Python Musings #7: Simulating FSAs in lieu of real postal code data.
Disclaimer The following is the same content that I have posted in my other blog on this topic in R, but written in Python. While I actually first wrote the code for doing this in Python, I’ll be posting the similar verbiage from that blog here. Introduction Often when scraping data, websites will ask a… Continue reading Python Musings #7: Simulating FSAs in lieu of real postal code data.
PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
Whats great about Blogging and social media is that you get to learn so much if you use it right. After sharing my last blog on LinkedIn, Casper Crause told me about the siuba module created by Michael Chow from which allows Python users experience to using R’s powerful dplyr package (developed by Hadley Wickham)… Continue reading PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
PythonMusings #5: Make a Stock/Crypto Ticker Discord Bot with this Simple Script!
With a little bit of time off I decided to explore the discord.py module again with trying to make some of my own Discord bots. The bot I decided to make is a simple stock/crypto ticker bot that tracks the live price of a stock/crypto that I want. This was inspired by the r/Cryptocurrency discord… Continue reading PythonMusings #5: Make a Stock/Crypto Ticker Discord Bot with this Simple Script!
Benstats Talks #1: A presentation on CNNS
Its been a while since I last posted anything on my blog, so I thought I would share an update. Recently, I had the opportunity to present for my midterm examination a deep learning framework of my choosing. I chose to give a talk on (you guessed it!) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their application… Continue reading Benstats Talks #1: A presentation on CNNS
RvsPython #5.1: Making the Game even with Python’s Best Practices
Well, it turns out that my last blog that R was over 220 times faster than Python got a lot of (constructive) criticism saying that I wasn’t using “best practices” with Python, which was why my Python code was so slow. This is a totally acceptable critique; thus, I’ve decided to write a follow up… Continue reading RvsPython #5.1: Making the Game even with Python’s Best Practices
RvsPython #5: Using Monte Carlo To Simulate π
Please note: This blog has got alot of criticism as to the lack of best practices being used in the Python code. I have written a follow up to this issue here. Let me know what you think! Introduction The number , while being an irrational and transcendental number is a central number to which… Continue reading RvsPython #5: Using Monte Carlo To Simulate π
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