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About Data Science

Data science centers on 2 things:

  • Truth-telling: e.g. unearth relationships, make predictions, state significance
  • Story-telling: drama...

The analytics paradigm

  1. Decompose the ask
  2. Identify data sources
  3. Define strategy and metrics
  4. Build data retrieval plan
  5. Retrieve the data
  6. Assemble and clean the data
  7. Analyze for trends
  8. Acknowledge limitations
  9. Make the call or tell the story

The CRISP-DM Process (Cross Industry Process for Data Mining)

  1. Business Understanding (problem to solve)
  2. Data Understanding
  3. Prepare Data
  4. Data Modeling
  5. Evaluate the Results
  6. Deploy

Posting on GitHub

  • README file

    • Installations: Extra libraries that are not installed with the Anaconda distribution, as well as what what version of python you are using should be noted.

    • Project Motivation: Discuss what your project is about, and what interested you in pursuing the project.

    • File Descriptions: Guide others through the files in your repository. You may not talk about every file here, but you should let them know where they can find the work they might find most interesting.

    • How to Interact with your project: When your project isn't meant to be interactive or used for other projects, you should instead talk about the technical details of your project. What were your results? What did you do to improve them? What methods did you try? What worked? What didn't work?

    • Licensing, Authors, Acknowledgements, etc.: You always want to give credit where necessary. Acknowledge other contributors, helpful peers, data providers, etc.

Posting on Medium

  • Related to Marketing Yourself

    • Catchy image followed by a catchy title.
    • Write in small blocks of text, as large blocks of text will exhaust and demotivate your reader.
    • Start with an engaging question or current event that your audience is likely thinking about.
    • End with a recap and a call to action.

  • Related to Keeping Yourself and Your Reader Motivated

    • Keep your post short and sweet. 1-2 pages, 200-500 words, Less than 8 mins
    • Create an outline. A useful outline for your post could just be: introduction, each of your questions, and then a conclusion. This will help you stay focused when writing your post.
    • Review.

  • Additional resources about posting