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Nov 10, 2019

Toughest part in a data science project

Was surprised to see my post trending. Since it caught on, I would cross-share it over here. While the post was meant to answer a...

Nov 2, 2019

Web scraping using Beautifulsoup on embedded html - Process - Python

In this webscraping attempt, I want to get data on countries, sites and categories of sites in one table. One challenge I faced is to get...

Aug 11, 2019

Challenges at the start of a data project

As with my other posts, I am using the title "data scientist" loosely because titles are not consistently used across the industry so to...

Jun 23, 2019

Emoji data

I got to chance upon the emoji python package that allows printing emojis in Python and decided to collect some data relating to emojis...

May 7, 2019

Sample size and correlation

A typical question faced is how much data is considered enough. The answer is it depends. First and foremost, we need to know what...

Apr 15, 2019

Reading csv data from Github - Python

Today I decided to poke around a little to see if it would be possible to read csv files directly from Github, and the answer is yes. As...

Dec 15, 2018

Text frequency analysis - Process - R

This is a tutorial to get the frequency distribution of words used in a chunk of text and is a simpler alternative to a more elaborate...

Oct 9, 2018

Web scraping using selenium - Process - Python

In addition to BeautifulSoup, selenium is a very useful package for webscraping when it involves repeated user interaction with the...

Sep 1, 2018

Crisis Risk Dashboard - Process - Tableau

This is Part I of a two-part post. Part I outlines the process of presenting the data using Tableau and Part II delves into insights from...

Jul 19, 2018

Singapore's Heartbeat

As Singapore's National Day is coming up, I decided to put together a data viz to better understand how much we have changed across the...

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