This is a re-port of an article I wrote for the MassMutal blog: https://blog.massmutual.com/post/a-grads-view-solving-real-problems.
Just this past May, I graduated from the University of Vermont and the Computational Story Lab research group to work as a senior data scientist with MassMutual. While there are many …
Well, I never thought it would happen. Today I qualified for the Boston Marathon with a 3:00:04 showing at the Presque Isle Marathon.
If you perform EDA using jupyter notebooks, it’s really easy to share those results with some moderate interaction via a jupyter dashboard. Here are the basic steps:
Build the analysis, etc. Assuming this is done locally. Install the dashboard layout extension and lay out some sweet graphs. Optional: decorate …
Well, let’s do a simple test and find out if it speeds up the process of one-hot encoding a variable in our data. There are other reasons to set it, and we’ll get to those. Starting with the very helpful code snippet from spark-gotchas:
import json
from pyspark …Some really fantastic work from the teams in W209 this semester. Links:
Earlier this week I wrote about how to structure an academic project directory and one of those directories was paper. The project write-ups (read: papers) will live here. My tool of choice for writing is LaTeX. It is not for everyone, and since you’re this far I’m going …
Organizing the basic structure of your computer is tremendously helpful in keeping track of things. You’re a good person, so I’ll start by assuming that you’re already using unix. Still, it’s easy to get overwhelmed when poking through old directories that full of folders named “attempt1 …
I received this message:
Tyler Jan 9
Hello Mr. Reagan,
Recently I read your paper "The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes", and it fascinated me. I'd love to learn more about how data scientists are able to deconstruct and graph language; where can I find …
This is a repost of my original at our StoryLab blog_
Stories help us encode and understand our collective existence, underpin cultures, and help frame the possible. Describing the ecology of all human stories is an essential scientific enterprise. With the advent of the internet and massive digitization this …
After grabbing a couple hours of sleep, I had an awesome time running the O2X Summit Challenge on Saturday with Chris Danforth and Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne.
Here's my Strava data. The course was considerably more challenging (and interesting) than I'd expected- way more fun than running up the access road. There …