Data Science
Alumni Stories
From Peace Corps to Predicting Weather: Mark Ehler’s Story
After returning from the Peach Corps, Mark Ehler worked in a retina lab but wanted to improve lives in a bigger way. Mark enrolled in Flatiron School and now uses machine learning principles to better predict weather pattens.
Data Science
How to Understand Coronavirus Data by Understanding Data Science
Your guide to understanding coronavirus numbers, death rates, and spread rates.
Data Science
Book Review: Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
If you’re comfortable with coding in Python and want a quick introduction to both classic and deep learning techniques in Python from an experienced practitioner, “Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems” by Aurélien Géron just might be the book for you! Aurélien who? Aurélien Géron is […]
Alumni Stories
One Student’s Journey From Professional Basketball Player to Data Scientist
From Basketball to Big Data… “It’s okay if it feels impossible in the beginning you have to remind yourself it’s brand new and to build skill sets take time and practice.” // Meet Flatiron School Grad Sabatino Chen! He majored in math and then went on to play professional basketball in Asia. He completed […]
Data Science
An Introduction to the Relational Database
As a data scientist, a big part of your job is obtaining the data that you need to operate on. In many companies, that data will be stored in one or more relational databases. The goal of this article is to introduce relational databases – what they are and why they’ve historically been so popular. […]
Data Science
Version Control for Data Scientists: A Hands-on Introduction
Historically, many data scientists didn’t use “software development” tools like version control systems. These days as their code becomes more sophisticated and data scientists are increasingly influenced by their software engineering partners, it’s becoming increasingly important to learn how to skillfully use a version control system like Git. In this brief, hands-on introduction, you’ll learn […]
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A Hands-on Introduction to Data Cleaning in Python Using Pandas
While most articles focus on deep learning and modeling, as a practicing data scientist you’re probably going to spend much more time finding, accessing, and cleaning up data than you will running models against it. In this post, you’ll get a quick, hands-on introduction to using the Python “Pandas” library. Whether you’re taking your first […]