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I mentioned in my first blog post here that I had started to take a data science immersive course at General Assembly, and I figured now would be a good time to cover a little bit of what I had been doing within it. Within the course, as we gradually covered some of the toolsContinue reading “Hackathon: Classifying Shelter Animal Outcomes”

When I was working on my PhD, there was one part of my analysis work that was the bane of my existence. Not because what I was ultimately trying to accomplish was all that difficult, but because where I was pulling a specific set of data from was an absolute mess. I was working withContinue reading “Example of Data Cleaning in Physics”

Hello all, and welcome to my adventures and mishaps as I dive in the world of data science. To start with, I am Scott Locke, a recent graduate from the University of California, Irvine with a PhD in Physics having returned to Seattle after originally growing up in Washington. A bit about me outside ofContinue reading “Switching From Physics to Data Science”