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What makes us happy? Lets look at data to find out.

I’ve had a lot of different jobs over the past 4 years, and I’ve had some incredible experiences along the way. Lately, I’ve been struggling with what to do next. Or perhaps more accurately, I’ve been struggling with how to decide what to do next. Decisions

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On the automated scoring of essays and the lessons learned along the way

We’ve all written essays, primarily while we were in school. The sometimes enjoyable process of researching the topic and composing the paper can take hours and hours of careful work. Given this, people react badly to the notion that their essays may be scored not by a human teacher,

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How Many Data Scientists Are There?

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about “Big Data” and the looming “talent gap.” This article from the Wall Street Journal is a good example. It cites a McKinsey estimate that states that we will need 1.5 million more managers and analysts who are conversant with “big

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Introduction To Kaggle Algorithmic

I recently participated in the Kaggle Algorithmic Trading Competition under the username VikP. For those who do not know what Kaggleis, it is a web site where individuals and corporations can host data analysis competitions. This particular competition involved the prediction of how the prices of 50,000 observations of