Life
Things weren’t going well. I couldn’t do another assignment. I couldn’t get myself to write anything. I couldn’t make progress on projects. I was struggling to do basically any work at all, let alone work that proved to be half-decent...
Life
Take a stroll through your Instagram or Facebook feeds. Chances are high that you find no sign of this. Rather than pictures of grey skies and office settings, you’ll instead end up with scenic beaches and exotic views with smiling faces...
Data Science
As we move into August and summer begins to wind down, I thought I’d take the time to reflect on my last 12 weeks as a Data Science Intern for Unity Technologies in San Francisco...
Data Science
We are exposed to seemingly endless streams of data science career advice, but there is one topic that doesn’t get quite enough love: side projects...
Reading
About a week ago, I finally finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. While released in 2011, the bestseller remains just as applicable today as it was nearly eight years ago...
Data Science
We’ve all gotten those emails at one point or another. You know, the ones that start with “Thank you for your interest” and end with shattered dreams and self-doubt. Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme...
Reflection
As of July 16th, sometime early in the morning, I turned 22 years old. It’s crazy how much faster time seems to move with every new year. In order to commemorate the occasion, I thought I would go ahead and reflect on some things...
Data Science
As one might imagine, there is plenty of overlap between machine learning and the field of combinatorics. Within machine learning, natural language processing and text classification contain plenty of interesting and challenging problems...
Data Science
Data science internships are a tricky thing. It sounds almost counterintuitive that there are intern positions available for a role where most employers look for advanced degrees...
Writing
This post isn’t original. It certainly isn’t the first of its kind. I would need a scientific calculator to come up with the actual number of What I Learned from Writing posts on Medium...
Data Science
If you’ve ever published a story on Medium before, chances are that you’re familiar with Medium Stats and its offerings. Medium Stats is a tool where you can view traffic and visitor statistics for posts that you publish on the platform...
Data Science
You’ve probably heard of the elusive data science unicorn by now. If you haven’t, unicorns are professionals who have mastered several cross-disciplinary skills in and around the field of data science...