If you are like me, you learn by creating pet projects. Kaggle.com is an excellent source of pet projects data ( among other things).

I also use Deepnote as a workspace to build my pet projects. Again, this is because it has everything I can want in an environment like a file directory, easy access to GitHub, a terminal, ability to seamlessly delete and create a python environment. Plus, all the magic and experimentation happens outside my local system.

They also have chat support in every new project environment if you wanna rant about something not working on Deepnote.

Optimization

This is a two-part case study where we define the optimization problem in part one, and we use the Pulp python library as a tool to solve the business problem in part two.

Introduction

From the previous post, we were able to define the decision variables, objective function, and constraints. Let have a quick refresher mathematically.

• Decision variable

Our decision variables can be represented as A and Swhere 
A is the number of Apple phone stock 
S is the number of Samsung phone stock

• Objective function

Z = 788.53A + 425.81Swhere 
Z is the optimal maximum revenue
788.53 and 425.81…

Optimization

This is a two-part case study where we define the optimization problem in part one, and we use the Pulp python library as a tool to solve the business problem in part two.

Introduction

Optimization problems are the dilemma of any business. This can come in two decision-making: either maximation and minimization, be it profit or cost.

Any optimization problem has three things you need to define before solving them

1. The decision variable s— what you can control
2. The objective function — What we want to achieve
3. Constraint(s) — What limited resources we have

A typical optimization problem can be solved…

Introduction

I recently started using DataBricks more frequently in the past 2 months, and I have had many mood swings about it. One minute I am super impressed, and the other minute, I abhor it. To be fair, a lot of the negative emotions about it can be linked to the fact that it needs some getting used to, and I find myself lacking the time to do that.

But what is DataBricks?

In simple terms, DataBrick is like Jupyter notebook but so much more and on steroids. It trumps Jupyter notebook in terms of

• Being able to run spark SQL…

Introduction

Visualization is one of the cores of data analytics. It is one of my favourite part of analytics because it challenges your communication skills and is the most user-centric part of the analysis.

Even though my default programming language is python. It is not my favourite tools for visualization: Tableau takes that position. And for over a year, I have been consciously taking to improve how I convey information through visualization using Tableau most of the time.

If you check my Tableau profile, you will immediately realize that I am nowhere near perfect, and I still make a s**t load…

I know, I know. The book has a cheesy title. At least that was my first impression. I assumed it was a marketing gimmick book with a “clickbait” title that would have very fluffy assumptions as content. If not because a trusted source recommended this book, I probably would not have been “caught dead” reading it. As they say, do not judge a book by its cover.

For one thing, the entirety of this book confirms the two things I am beginning to understand

• Common sense is not very common.
• Conventional ideologies can be very flawed.

For me, this book…

As 2020 draws to its ends (hopefully along with its chaos), I took a step back to reminisce about all the tools/skills I have picked up this year and all the tools I really didn’t use so much this year. One tool I really didn’t use so much is Tableau.

Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool that creates visually-appealing dashboards.

I decided to find a dataset to analyze and visualize on Tableau.

One tool that I picked up this year and I have used quite frequently is Streamlit.

Streamlit is such an awesome tool for data scientists.

Instead of…

Introduction

I recently discovered that I retain more information when I read a book in audio format than in written format. This discovery instigated the need to find ways to read Medium posts in audio formats like a podcast. My first plan was to gather all my medium read lists and convert them to audio. Unfortunately, Medium API technically does not support this. What it does support, however, is getting article feeds by username. Therefore I decided to streamline my goal, for now, to convert one of my old medium posts to audio. Here is the sample below

You can…