Leverage Anti-joins

Introduction Assuming you already have some background with the other more common types of joins, inner, left, right, and outer; adding semi and anti can prove incredibly useful saving you what could have alternatively taken multiple steps. In a previous post, I outlined the benefits of semi-joins and how to use them. Here I’ll be …

Getting Started with Data Science

Introduction When it comes to getting started in data science it can be a bit overwhelming. You need to know statistics, programming, machine learning… within each of those domains there are a many, many sub domains that can dominate a person’s focus and once they’re done reading everything there is to know about one thing, …

Leverage Semi-joins in R

Introduction Assuming you already have some background with the other more common types of joins, inner, left, right, and outer; adding semi and anti can prove incredibly useful saving you what could have alternatively taken multiple steps. In this post, I’ll be focusing on just semi-joins; with that said, there is a lot of overlap …

Kmeans clustering

Introduction Clustering is a machine learning technique that falls into the unsupervised learning category. Without going into a ton of detail on different machine learning categories, I’ll give a high level description of unsupervised learning. To put it simply, rather than pre-determining what we want our algorithm to find, we provide the algorithm little to …

What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know About Clustering

Introduction to Machine Learning Machine learning is a frequently buzzed about term, yet there is often a lack of understanding into its different areas. One of the first distinctions made with machine learning is between what’s called supervised and unsupervised learning. Having a basic understanding of this distinction and the purposes/applications of either will be …

Building a Regression Model with Categorical Factors

Introduction Regression is a staple in the world of data science, and as such it’s useful to understand it in its simplest form. I recently wrote a post that gave us more detail into regression. You can find that here. To follow on the ideas that we explored there, today we will be exploring the …

Build, Evaluate, and Interpret a Linear Regression Model in Minutes

Intro Regression is central to so much of the statistical analysis & machine learning tools that we leverage as data scientists. Stated simply, we utilize regression techniques to model Y through some function of X. We’ll take a look at some additional ideas to set up the premise of regression; and then we’ll take a …

Understanding The General Modeling Framework

When it comes to building statistical models, we do so with the purpose of understanding or approximating some aspect of our world. The concept of the general modeling framework lends well to breaking down the purposes and approaches that we might take to generate said understanding. What is the General Modeling Framework? Take a look …

COVID-19: Data Visualization Mastery

I recently made a post where we explored the data recently put out by John Hopkins University on COVID-19; while we were able to make some interesting discoveries, it seemed pertinent to gather data that provided a more full picture. In my search I came across the following dataset acquired and distributed by Tableau. This …

Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis with JHU COVID-19 Data

There is a lot of pandemonium and energy around covid-19 and it’s potential implications. There are many parties out there saying many things. One of the amazing about being a data scientist is having the ability to dive into available data on your own. Lets dive into some data currently being accumulated by John Hopkins …