Introduction The constant evolution of technology has meant data and information is being generated at a rate unlike ever before, and it’s only on the rise. Furthermore, the demand for people skilled in analyzing, interpreting and using this data is already high and...
Introduction to Pandas, NumPy and RegEx in Python
If you are a working professional looking for your first Data Science stint or a student dreaming of building Jarvis, this blog will help you take your first baby step. Python has literally 100s of libraries that make a Data Scientist’s life easier. It can be...
Top 10 Advantages of a Data Science Certification
Data science is a booming industry, with potentially millions of job openings by 2020, according to the latest analyst's business predictions. But what if you want to learn data science without the heavy cost of a postgraduate degree or the US university MOOC...
10 Data Science Skills to Land your Dream Job in 2019
Introduction In a 2017 business research article IBM predicted that the need for Data Scientists will increase by 28% by 2020, with nearly 3 million job openings for Data Science professionals. According to a Forbes report, Data Science is the best job in America for...
Machine Learning (ML) Essentials
When I started my Data Science journey, I casually Googled ‘Application of Machine Learning Algorithms’. For the next 10 minutes, I had my jaw hanging. Quite literally. Part of the reason was that they were all around me. That music video from YouTube recommendations...
Must-Have Resources to Become a Data Scientist
Become a Professional Now there are a multitude of data science resources out there, all of whom claim to be the "best possible introductory to advanced material and courseware on the subject of data science". Now I've made mistakes in choosing my data science...
8 Data Science Projects to Build your Portfolio
Introduction A decade ago, machine learning was simply a concept but today it has changed the way we interact with technology. Devices are becoming smarter, faster and better, with Machine Learning at the helm. Thus, we have designed a comprehensive list of projects...
How to Find Mentors for Data Science?
Introduction Although Data Science has been around us ever since the 1960s, it has only gained traction in the last few decades. This is one of the main reasons why budding data scientists find it quite challenging to find the right mentors. However, this scenario is...
Building Blocks of Decision Tree
It’s been said that Data Scientist is the “sexiest job title of the 21st century.” This is because of one main reason that there is a humongous amount of data available as we are producing data at a rate as never before. With the dramatic access to data, there are...
KNNs (K-Nearest-Neighbours) in Python
The Nearest Neighbours algorithm is an optimization problem that was initially formulated in tech literature by Donald Knuth. The key behind the idea was to find out into which group of classes a random point in the search space belongs to, in a binary class,...