Let’s say that you in reading through the sports section of your favorite newspaper or online publication and you come upon a strange article focused on a sunflower farmer in Arizona. This article has nothing to do with sports, so how could it have ended up in this section? You…

If you are going to study data science, data analysis, machine learning, or any other discipline that builds models to make predictions on data, you are going to stumble upon the term “Bias-Variance Tradeoff”. Basically, it describes the tradeoff of a model learning “too much” or “too little” in the…

As humans with extremely complex brains, we make extremely complex decisions in a fraction of a second without even recognizing the process that happens behind that decision making. Simple things like reading your own handwriting may seem mundane but the amount of knowledge and processing power done by your…

When writing code it can seem inconsequential to add another if-else statement or loop because most of the code we write can terminate in seconds if not less. This is true for smaller projects that will be unused after their initial use. On a larger scale, certain code can be…

What if I told you that you didn’t need to pray to the fantasy gods in order to win your league? This may seem impossible but with the power of data science we can determine the players most likely to score the most points. The way that this can…

In order to have a prediction on an occurrence of an event or an outcome of that event, one needs data or knowledge on the domain of the event. If one does not have this information, a prediction or guess on any event will be completely…

So you want to enter the mysterious and wonderful world of coding. You want to enjoy the ability to create anything you can think of with the click of a few buttons. Maybe hack your way into any source of information to gain insight on what the government…