Put your work in the spotlight! — Are you a Data Scientist or Software Developer who wants to highlight your best work from GitHub on your LinkedIn profile? If so, read on. Step 1) Set social media preview image on GitHub. Remember the old saying, “A picture says a thousand words,” and select an appropriate image to…

Quickly get the gist on over 30,000 Tweets! — In my latest project, I explored the question, “What is the public sentiment in the United States on K-12 learning during the COVID-19 pandemic?”. Using data collected from Twitter, Natural Language Processing, and Supervised Machine Learning, I created a text classifier to predict Tweets' sentiment on this topic. Fantastic! I’m…

Account Location metadata + Regular Expressions == Tweet Location Filtering — In my latest project, I explored the question, “What is the public sentiment in the United States on K-12 learning during the COVID-19 pandemic?”. Using data collected from Twitter, Natural Language Processing, and Supervised Machine Learning, I created a text classifier to predict Tweets' sentiment on this topic. Since I…

Comparison of NLP Tools to Human Sentiment for Tweets — I recently worked on a text classification project which used Tweets that included sentiment labels. I was curious how these human-provided labels would differ from popular sentiment detection tools. I chose two tools, VADER and Text Blob, and ran a little experiment. …

As a Flatiron Data Science Bootcamp student, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) has been a foundational piece for every project I’ve submitted. After completing my first few projects, I developed a workflow to help me complete EDA tasks. I found that I can spend hours exploring datasets, just out of sheer…