Prologue
This blog is all about tracking progress, so I have a couple facts that I have to acknowledge.
- I promised myself that I wouldn't waste much time doing this
- I'm normally a perfectionist when it comes to writing
- Its unlikely that this will ever be read
With that in mind: I'm Joe. I went to school for computer science and I am happily settled in a job doing networking stuff. Being settled at a job as a fairly fresh graduate feels weird though, so I'm making it my personal mission to nurture/develop my data science skills.
I come from a programming background so I have a little experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Pandas, R, and some of those fun shopping-cart algorithms. In pursuing this, I expect that I'll have the most difficulty with the statistics side of things, but I'm sure that can be remedied by a good book or two.
I come from a programming background so I have a little experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Pandas, R, and some of those fun shopping-cart algorithms. In pursuing this, I expect that I'll have the most difficulty with the statistics side of things, but I'm sure that can be remedied by a good book or two.
The format of this blog will results focused and will not be instructional. This means that I may describe what I've done in vague terms, but I'll spend more time presenting and discussing results. I'll post source code when I feel it's appropriate.
Cheers,
Joe
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