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Human Image Synthesis

Over the past couple years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have taken Data Science by storm. If you are not familiar with GANs and want a quick glimpse at what they can do, check out the website deepdreamgenerator.com. I used that to generate the article image!

Since I haven’t yet played with them, I want to see what all the hype is about! I found some tutorials and started researching GANs. Anyone looking to break into GANs, I highly recommend these two YouTube channels:

Although I will not get too deep into the foundations of GANs, I recommend checking out the…

Need a New Universe?

While everyone was stuck inside during the Covid-19 pandemic, board games and tabletop games erupted in popularity. One of the games I’ve been falling in love with is BattleTech. Created in the 80’s, the BattleTech universe is akin to an intergalactic space opera depicting battles between towering battlemechs and the mechwarriors that pilot them. Over the years, it has matured into a vast sci-fi intellectual property that offers something for everyone: Explore the endless lore through volumes of novels, play as a mechwarrior controlling a giant robot in various videogames, and master mech-squad tactics via the Tabletop/board games.

Since the…

Creating the Auto-Sommelier

Back in August 2019, I put my first Natural Language Processing (NLP) project into production and hosted the Auto-Sommelier on my website. Using TensorFlow 1 and the Universal Sentence Encoder, I allow users to describe their ideal wine, and return wines with a description that is similar to the query. The tool transforms wine reviews and user input into vectors and calculates the cosine similarity between user input and the wine reviews to find the most similar results.

Cosine Similarity is a popular measure for comparing document similarity because it works well with data where things like term frequency is…

Tell Stories with your Data

When I started working on the company’s Data Science team, one of my first projects was enhancing one of the business intelligence dashboard web apps. Working in Data science, you need to know how to visualize data because you often have to communicate information about data, models, and results to an audience.

Thinking about the app’s users, I knew the audience was going to vary in terms of data literacy so I would need effective visualizations to help them digest the numbers. …

Starting to Work with Data?

My love for data started at a young age listening to my parents talk about stocks, but it really took off about 9 years ago when I first discovered SQL. To get better at analyzing data, a few years back I joined a data analysis boot camp, got better at coding, and changed my entire life. Now, I’ve been working on a Data Science team as a Software Product Analyst for almost two years, and I still love data.

In this article, I’ll introduce variables and discuss why you need to understand them for machine learning. By the end you’ll…

Subscription Services are BOOMING!

Subscription businesses are a growing part of the economy with no signs of slowing down. Research from Zuora, a company that helps its users set up subscriptions, found that 71% of adults across 12 countries have subscription services. As someone who likes building things from scratch instead of using paid services, I started exploring the PayPal API to see how easy it is to set up a subscription paywall for my websites built using the Dash framework.

In this tutorial I explain how to get started with the PayPal API and build a basic website using Dash that allows people…

Go with the Flow

With cryptocurrency growing in popularity and stock markets hovering at all-time highs, it feels like everyone and their brother is interested in finance right now. My interest in trading began when I was a kid, and I’ve been trading stocks and options as a pastime for over seven years. I embrace it not only for the adrenaline, but also because I genuinely enjoy analyzing market data. Option Market order flow is a type of market data that I use frequently and see gaining in popularity.

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I Pivoted My Career

A year and a half ago, I became a software product analyst on a data science team for a company that develops software used by school districts across America. In my role, I assist in the planning and testing of our internal and external analytics tools and products. I also help teams with ad hoc SQL queries for business intelligence. Check out this article if you’re interested in learning more about how I went from Technical Support to Product Analyst.