Overview- It would be a lie to say that I wasn’t very excited about this Unit. In many ways, the entire reason I enrolled in Lambda was to cover the material found in this section. Neural Networks have been a fascination of mine ever since I realized their applications in...
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Saltiest HackerNews Commentors!
Can we identify 'salty' commenters on HackerNews? by Rob Bennett
Overview- This was our second group build, with cross over from the web team. The goal of the project was to take in data about the Hacker News website, evaluate the relative negativity of the comments each commenter made, assign them a negative value and the commenter an overall negative...
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Intermediate Data Science Review- Databases and OOP
The episode where we cover the basics of OOP and databases! by Rob Bennett
Overview- This unit was the most difficult in Lambda to date. Object oriented programming comes out of left field and you have a very short period of time to familiarize yourself and get your feet under you before you are producing functional code. Very tricky stuff. We moved from that...
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AirBNB Price Maximizing!
How can we maximize the listing price for an AirBnB stay? by Rob Bennett
Overview- The Unit-3 build was our first team building project with Lambda School. The Web students start group builds in Unit 1, so they have a lot more cross-over. This was a challenging experience because you have a week to get a project that you probably aren’t that excited about...
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Basic Data Science- Linear Models and Applied Modeling
The episode where we cover the basics of predictive models! by Rob Bennett
Overview- This was the first unit that felt like actual data science. Or proto-data science. We learned to love sklearn (or scikit-learn). This unit also had us move away from Google colabs into local enviornments. There were a lot of interesting challenges to be had with that. Primarily, we were...
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