I just finished a novel written by Patricia Lockwood called No One is Talking About This, a genre-defying book that begins embedded in the social media experiences of an extremely online protagonist and ends with the protagonist’s sisters birth of a child with proteus syndrome, a one in a billion…

If you saw my blog post last week, you’ll know that I’ve been completing LaylaAI’s PySpark Essentials for Data Scientists course on Udemy and worked through the feature selection documentation on PySpark. …

This past week I was doing my first machine learning project for Layla AI’s PySpark for Data Scientist course on Udemy. …

A book that first got me interested in pursuing Data Science was Claude C. Hopkins’ Scientific Advertising. Hopkins pioneered the use of statistical testing and test campaigns in the field of advertising. While Hopkins focused on print advertising and supermarket mailers, many of his followers like David Ogilvy would expand…

Last fall, after my first trip to the Met Cloisters, I started learning more about the Unicorn Tapestries, a seven tapestry series over 500 years old, with each tapestry comprising tens of thousands of threads. The seven tapestries tell the seemingly simple story of a Unicorn’s capture, captivity, and murder…

How to Go with the MLFlow: Tracking Tutorial. Anyone who has worked on a professional or personal machine learning project will know that keeping track of the performance and evaluations of each of your models can get particularly messy. …

While learning about classification algorithms in PySpark’s MLLib, I came across an algorithm I had not used in SciKit Learn, the One-vs-rest classifier. The one-vs-rest classifier, or one-vs-all, splits a multi-class classification problem into several binary classification problems with a model for each class. For the popular orchid dataset, this…

If you’ve been following my blogposts in the past you’ll know that I’ve been pursuing a certification in Data Science with PySpark using LaylaAI’s course on Udemy, PySpark Essentials for Data Scientists (Big Data + Python). …

Five years ago, Oxford controversially republished the first three plays of the minor Henriad with Christopher Marlowe as the coauthor. The scholarship may befuddle fans of the bards, unless they know about Natural Language Processing. Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays have always occupied a curious place in his canon. Although they…