Life
Time most certainly does fly. I’m sitting here with my laptop at the airport in Dublin right now waiting for my plane to arrive. After 8 short hours or so, I’ll touch down in New York to settle down and start my new job...
Data Science
We spend our time pouring over granular datasets, finding mistakes, cleaning them, building predictive models, producing visualizations, deriving insights, and communicating those insights to stakeholders in the hope of driving impact...
Data Science
If you’re anything like me, you subscribe to newsletters. Lots of newsletters. Like, too many newsletters. I can’t help myself. When done right, newsletters are an excellent form of content curation..
Business
You’ve heard the cliché. Employers don’t want excuses, they want facts, supporting data, and most importantly, results. They aren’t concerned with your story, just make sure you keep things moving up and to the right...
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...