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Recently, I had the “pleasure” of setting up my work computer (the computer that I use exclusively for data science projects) from scratch. I have a 2016 Macbook…
In this article I’d like to answer a very simple question — that I get a lot. It’s this:What is data science? The question is simple, sure… But…
This is the second episode of my web scraping tutorial series. In the first episode, I showed you how you can get and clean the data from one…
Running hobby projects is the best way to practice data science before getting your first job. And one of the best ways to get real data for a…
I get this question a lot: What’s the best computer (or laptop) for a data scientist? In this article, I’ll answer it in detail and I’ll add specific…
We all know the old catch-22 — you need a job to get job experience and job experience to get a job. Luckily, that’s not entirely true in…
Not so long ago, I saw one of my data scientist friends speak in front of his whole company. He worked for two months on a great data…
A few years ago, I put a lot of work into a hobby project of mine: a self-learning Python chatbot that learns like a newborn baby. It was…
Over the last 6 years I’ve been part of many job interviews – on both sides of the table. The most fun, but also the most feared, part…
This is the third episode of my pandas tutorial series. In this one I’ll show you four data formatting methods that you might use a lot in data…
Let’s continue with the pandas tutorial series. This is the second episode, where I’ll introduce aggregation (such as min, max, sum, count, etc.) and grouping. Both are very…
Pandas is one of the most popular Python libraries for Data Science and Analytics. I like to say it’s the “SQL of Python.” Why? Because pandas helps you…
Did you know that Python wasn’t originally built for Data Science? And yet today it’s one of the best languages for statistics, machine learning, and predictive analytics as…
So far we have worked with the most essential concepts of Python: variables, data structures, built-in functions and methods, for loops, and if statements. These are all parts…
In my Python workshops and online courses I see that one of the trickiest things for newcomers is the syntax itself. It’s very strict and many things might…
Last time I wrote about Python For Loops and If Statements. Today we will talk about how to combine them. In this article, I’ll show you – through a…
Connecting Google Data Studio to your PostgreSQL database is easier than you would think. I will walk you through the whole process step by step. By the end…
Last time I wrote about why it’s worth it to become a data scientist. This time I’d like to answer another important and very common data science career…
Why become a data scientist? From time to time, I get this question from people who are flirting with the idea of becoming a data professional. Since you…
As I have mentioned several times, Data Science has 3 important pillars: Coding, Statistics and Business. To succeed, you have to be well-versed in all three. In this…