Telling Stories With Data

I'm moving through some great data science material via Cognitive Class (Big Data University) via a course titled (appropriately) Introduction to Data Science. One of the modules discussed one of the many areas in which a great data scientist must possess strength, storytelling.

1. Tell readers, at the outset, what they might gain by reading your paper.
2. Make the aim of the work clear. 
3. Explain the significance of your contribution.
4. Have you set your work in the appropriate context by giving sufficient background (including a complete set of relevant references) to your work?
5. Have you addressed the question of practicality and usefulness?
6. Have you identified future developments that might result from your work?
7. Have you structured your paper in a clear and logical fashion?

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Harvard University...

I just completed three full days of on-site continuing education at Harvard University. (The $1,200 fee was waived by the Computer Science department.) We engaged in 22 hours of in-person instruction and I completed 15 hours (closer to a hundred?) of preparatory work.

2D, 360 Degree, Virtual Reality...

A long-time friend of mine is in a local band called THE HORRiFiCS and I am pleased to be doing a blended photo shoot with them in 11 hours. I've been focusing my photographic efforts almost entirely on local businesses for several months, so it's a nice change of pace. I'm taking my portable photo studio for more traditional shots, then we're going on-location, and along the way, I'll be capturing some 360° photos and possibly videos!!!

My Tableau Public Profile

I am super excited (and tired (it's 3:09 AM)) to be diving further into the boundless world of Data Science. One of my best friends was in town a few days ago and he introduced me to Tableau. A couple of days later, I had a fully licensed copy installed on my machine. Two days after that, I got to attend a roundtable discussion at Gleneagles Country Club in Plano, Texas. I was surrounded by a small group of community leaders in Data Science. The cities of Plano and Dallas had representatives there, as well as a variety of Data Scientists from a broad range of companies. It was a great experience, and I can't wait to attend other such events.

Austin Craver - Data Profile Page

I have spent the last several hours pouring over datasets and doing my best to produce something meaningful, all while telling a story.



I have since created two original data visualizations. One shows male and female life expectancies around the world. The other shows Internet usage by country.

Tableau/Prep

As I continue my journey, things continue to fall into place. For example, I was just granted a one-year research and education license of both Tableau and Tableau Prep!!! I cannot wait to grab a dataset and dive into the next chapter of my data science life.

I just download, installed, and registered Tableau and Tableau Prep! 

Tensors Flowing

In approximately 12 hours, one of my best friends will be arriving from Houston and we plan on spending the day coding. I am starting Chingu's Voyage 6 and look forward to gleaning as much as I can from his boundless programming expertise. In the meantime, since he mentioned TensorFlow, I have read up on it, which lead me to study tensors in general. The more I learn about machine learning and data science, the more confident I am that I will be learning much more.

Python Programming

I'm studying intermediate programming in Python and the DataCamp course I'm taking is using Google Sheets. All of the following information was copied and pasted entirely for me to easily locate in the future. ---

DATEDIF

Calculates the number of days, months, or years between two dates.

Sample Usage

DATEDIF(DATE(1969, 7, 16), DATE(1969, 7, 24), "D")

DATEDIF(A1, A2, "YM")

DATEDIF("7/16/1969", "7/24/1969", "Y")

Syntax

JavaScript Variables

Going to spend some time this weekend studying JavaScript. The image below was extracted from a screenshot of a course I'm taking via SoloLearn.

According to the website:

Naming Variables

There are some other rules to follow when naming your JavaScript variables:

- You must not use any special symbols, like my#num, num%, etc.
- Be sure that you do not use any of the following JavaScript reserved words.

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