Data Science – Page 2 – Easy Data Does It

Why Visualize Data? Anscombe’s quartet and the many lives that could have been saved…

February 9, 2021 Brian Seko

Any intellectual worth their salt can clearly look at a data set and see trends, right? Why would we need to bother ourselves with the “prettying” of data, which provides the cold hard facts we are looking for? What if I told you that the difference between a good data presentation and a poor one, was the difference between someone living or dying? We need to visualize data to see the whole picture. Whether we are looking at temperature data,…

Twitter and Network Data Visualizations: A Python Tutorial

January 23, 2021 Brian Seko

Note to the readers: For this tutorial I will be posting and explaining multiple code blocks. I will not be posting code in a “Pythonic” or more advanced format. It is my opinion that longer more laid out blocks are easier to understand. If you disagree, please tell me why! However, if you see code repeated, this is intentional. Social media has become one of the most prominent aspects of our culture; even a zeitgeist of the early 21st century….

Is Data Mining the Same as Collection?

January 22, 2021 Brian Seko

Data mining is a different type of task Data mining is a term used a lot out of context. For many, “data mining” is simply the act of acquiring and organizing data for cleaning, analysis, and presentation. I like to clarify the difference between the acquisition of data and actual data mining, where more advanced methods are applied. These methods are helpful in finding useful data in a large cluster. Patterns observed will help problem formulation and how you think…