Topic Archive

Data Science

  • Using Python (and FastAPI) to support PFAS research

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    In this podcast episode, Robert Young, the director of an analytical chemistry lab at New Mexico State University, shares his unique journey from being a lawyer to becoming a chemist and a Python programmer.  Watch here: Or listen here: He explains how his passion for environmental causes led him to study chemical analysis and mass spectrometry, initially focusing on the breakdown of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment. Robert discusses the challenges of analyzing complex data sets with thousands of molecules and how he learned to use Python and FastAPI to make the analysis more efficient.  He also introduces his current…

  • Cool data side projects and prolific content creation

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    Listen here: This week we talk with Kristen Kehrer about her journey as a data scientist, developer advocate and content creator. We dive into how she got into DS and what excites her about the field. We talk about her developer relations work at Comet ML, her journey from R to Python, and some really cool data projects she has developed lately (scratching her own itch).  For example the school bus one will blow your mind 🙂 Next we move onto the importance of content creation and growing an audience (building your brand) as a developer. We talk about Kristen’s content creation process, how to…

  • Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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    Listen here: This week we talk with Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur. We dive into: – His background. – Why he uses Python and the switch from Java. – His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he’s maintaining. – How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering. – His viral post on certificates vs the reality of looking things up as a programmer.– Book tips (The hard things about hard things, The startup of you and Grit).– And of course the importance of mindset as a developer (we cannot leave out the Julian question right?!) Enjoy this episode and connect with Yujian on LinkedIn or on our Slack. Other mentioned links:– His…

  • Automating the Boring Stuff and Plotting Student Data

    Russell Helmstedter

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    12 min read

    My name is Russell Helmstedter. I am a middle school math and computer science teacher at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts (DATA). My first exposure to Python was in March of 2020. For some reason, I was stuck at home and couldn’t go out and do things. I decided to learn how to code. After googling things like “what coding language should I learn” and “learn how to code”, I found Al Sweigart’s Automate the Boring Stuff. I was hooked. I began learning everything I could about Python. I started listening to podcasts, reading blogs, searching for…

  • Cleaning Text Data With Python

    David Colton

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    11 min read

    Machine Learning is super powerful if your data is numeric. What do you do, however, if you want to mine text data to discover hidden insights or to predict the sentiment of the text. What, for example, if you wanted to identify a post on a social media site as cyber bullying. In this article we introduce some methods to clean your text and prepare it for modelling.