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Mark’s Books
This is my son Mark: Mark was born in 2021 and is a pretty normal baby. If Mark is anything like his parents, he’ll love books. We decided a great present for him would be a set of books on every birthday (The list of books is at the end of this post). This would…
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Chapter 3: All Things Data-Defining Your Data Landscape For Data Science
A company’s data landscape is both the foundation and a hard requirement for any data science initiatives. Data strategy is incredibly hard to execute and no one gets it right-some companies just get closer than others. This chapter will address the following subjects: What is data and what forms does it come in What is…
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Chapter 2: Where am I on this Data Science Journey?
How to help others help you “Help me, help you.” – Jerry Maguire Working for a management consulting company as a director in the Data and AI space I get a lot of questions that begin with “I have this problem” and end with “can you help me?” Now I happen to cover a lot…
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Chapter 1: What is Data Science and What Can It Do For You?
It is just as {Joseph} said to Pharaoh: …seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them…
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Preface
“This head of data analytics just put in their notice. You gravitate to this stuff-do you want to run the team until we find a real professional?” – COO of Operations to me in the hallway, 2016 Of course I will! It’s odd how so much of life is working hard until you get placed,…
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Top 50 Movies Every Young Man Should Watch
“So what movies would you recommend?” That’s a tough question-I know what I would recommend to young men who would like to be able to understand references and quotes from movies. This list is not the best 50 movies of all time-though they are all good. This list is the movies I think young men…
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Mark’s Courses: Simple Linear Regression Tutorial
I’ve decided to start building a data science course for my son so when he’s old enough to be interested I can offer him education that I can understand and explain. This is the first in hopefully many, and will focus on linear regression of a large feature data set. The data set is from…
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Step By Step Guide for Data Engineering With Python
This article will guide you through a practical exercise on engineering relational data. The input is a comma separated variable file and the output will be the same, with the intent that the output is in a format matching a template so that data can be concatenated. This could easily be applied/extended to database operations.…
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End to End Guide for Creating Windows Installers for Python using cx-Freeze
Creating windows installer for a program is a very powerful outcome for a developer. It means a user doesn’t need python installed or go through the work of installing required modules to use a program. It also gives the formality of adding an application to Window’s application list, and allows for easy uninstalling of a…
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End to End Guide For Creating Python Packages
I looked around the internet for guides on how to publish Python packages, and although there’s some great guides I couldn’t find an end to end one with examples and code to walk through. I endeavor for this article to serve that purpose. I referenced python’s documentation almost exclusively for this. The sources are linked…
