Fuzzy Matching using word vector distances to compare the similarity of strings — I recently did a project that involved merging datasets on names which had slightly different transcriptions for the same person. Some names were spelled wrong, included a nickname, middle name or suffix which didn’t match across datasets. …

Thinking of a project for my capstone, I knew I loved the idea of exploring language and its accessibility to readers, which is likely good context to my experience as an ESL teacher. As I was sitting in class, my instructor briefly pulled up Kaggle to show us a homework…

Data Science: It’s Not just Math and Robots With a background in Linguistics and Psychology, I get questions on why I chose Data Science for my career change! Long ago, I thought Data Science was for economists who predicted the stock market or computer scientists who built Artificially Intelligent Robots…

An app that predicts how annoyed you are about to be at upcoming traffic and prepares you by playing calming music. A webscraper to find Airbnb listings that meet my criteria and includes the cleaning and added fees in the price. Get ideas for, gather and organize vacation itineraries based…

I am two weeks and one project into my Data Science bootcamp and 10 weeks from graduation. I know it will go by quickly and the journey is as important as the end result. I want to document how I feel so I remember what it took to achieve. On…