My favourite RStudio tricks
Mar 28, 2020
My first post on this blog was on the 31st March 2019, almost exactly a year ago. My aim was to post at least once a month. Looking back over the year, I’ve posted 20 times (not including this) across topics like web scraping, regular expressions and creating Shiny apps, as well as chiming in with my thoughts and experiences around becoming a data scientist without a traditional STEM academic background.
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But are degrees actually required for data science?
Feb 24, 2020
Looking at job ads for data scientists, half of them specify they want you to have a degree. At least, that was what I found looking at jobs based in London posted on Indeed, which I covered in my most recent post.
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Are degrees required for data science?
Feb 22, 2020
Following on from my recent post on going from arts student to data scientist, I wanted to get more data on what companies were saying they wanted from data science applicants in terms of higher education.
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Going from arts student to data scientist
Jan 24, 2020
Yesterday, I was at the Women Driven Development Conference, speaking on a panel about unconventional paths into tech. With my BA in English, I have not taken a typical route into data science.
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Route mapping from GPS files
Dec 30, 2019
A while ago, my Dad asked me to look at the file he had as an output from his GPS. He does regular cross-country driving trips in Southern and East Africa, with his GPS capturing his location every couple of minutes.
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Negation in Fringe review sentiment analysis
Nov 16, 2019
In the previous post in this series on sentiment analysis, I used sentiment lexicons on my dataset of reviews from 2019’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. There were some obvious flaws in the approach, one of which was that by focussing on one word at at time, some important nuance was missed.
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Things I learnt in September and October 2019
Oct 31, 2019
October has completely disappeared! I meant to post my second approach to sentiment analysis as a follow up to the first, but the month has come and gone, so I guess it will have to wait a little longer.
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Sentiment analysis at the Fringe with lexicons
Sep 21, 2019
With all the audience reviews of shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival scraped and counted, I decided to dig a little deeper into what they actually represent. Lots of reviews does not necessarily mean lots of good reviews.
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What gets reviewed at the Edinburgh Fringe?
Sep 12, 2019
With my Fringe Roulette app, I shared my love of the Edinburgh Fringe with you. I was there for a week in August, and actually used my app to find one of the shows I saw!
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Things I learnt in July and August 2019
Sep 1, 2019
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of my personal project time on web scraping. This was core to the first step of the asylum data project that I wrote about recently, and I’ve also been scraping audience reviews of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - hopefully my next post will look at sentiment analysis and other considerations of which shows actually get reviewed.
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