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Purpose In my attempt to improve my competency with Natural Language Processing, I’ve been working on a mini-project in which I obtain insights from tweets. This will help develop my NLP skillset and enhances my abilities in mining unstructured data and obtain insights as a result. Process Just a refresher from my past blog. IContinue reading “Utilizing NLTK on Twitter Data”

Twitter is a plethora of live streaming data, more so when utilizing NLP to gain sentiment. Being able to draw on this resource and enrich models with live sentiment analysis is invaluable, especially when considering how influential people’s opinions and new information matters. First off, you have to sign in to Twitter to get aContinue reading “Accessing Twitter API”

Purpose: One of my projects during my bootcamp was predicting housing prices based on a Kaggle dataset of Ames, IA. I assume (unless you’re from Iowa) doesn’t know about Ames, because its small. I actually went to college at Iowa State University, which just happens to be in Ames, or seemingly Ames was located nextContinue reading “Multiple Linear Regression Predicting House Prices”

Purpose: I’ve always have had a fascination for the stock market. The idea of being able to own a portion of any publicly listed company is a fascinating revelation for building ones wealth. My first exposure to ‘playing’ the stock market was helping my dad pick out a few stocks for his IRA. A fewContinue reading “My Exploration into Quantitative Trading Part 1 of ?”

One of my prior posts looked into the intricacies of how Google/Deepmind went about creating one of the most dominant and versatile chess AI’s in the world. That inspired me to create my own version. For any of you who are interested in the hard code please visit my Git Repo: ShallowMind Please feel freeContinue reading “My Exploration Into Chess AI”

History/Predecessor: Created by DeepMind, who were bought by Google in 2014, AlphaZero is child of the explosive popularity of AI, the desire to create the ultimate chess engine, and raw computing power. The creators, inspired to create a versatile AI that would dominate chess, Go, and Shogi. The premise being that they would only boundContinue reading “Chess AI”

In the theme of expanding my data science toolbox, in this blog I will be exploring a few products, provided by Amazon, that are commonly used in data science. Why AWS Products? At the time of writing this, I had recently gone on a tour of company that conduct large scale data exploration and IContinue reading “AMAZON WEB SERVICES Data Science Products”

What are Real estate investment trusts? Real estate investment trust aka, REIT’s, are companies that own/manages real estate. REIT’s are a great alternative to actually buying a physical property. They are required, by law to distribute 90% of their income as dividends and as a direct result they typically have some of the highest dividendContinue reading “Time Series – REITs”

IPywidgets – Interactive Visuals in MatPlotLib Why I wanted to learn a new library Through the Flatiron school program, it’s typical that new libraries get introduced either in lecture or on Learn.co. However, this style of “spoon-feeding” new information is atypical in the real world, and in this career path, I’ve subscribed to life-long commitmentContinue reading “Learning a New Library”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.