5 strategies to post great questions and receive better answers — If you are in tech, you know what Stack Overflow is. More than likely, you might have a love-hate relationship with the service — while incredibly useful, users can be quite confrontational about a post they don’t deem “worthy”, asks a previously answered question or simply uses the word thanks…

Improve your data wrangling efficiency in leaps and bounds — As a freshman in college, when my life goal was still to become a hot-shot diplomat or United Nations ambassador, I took an Uber back to my university with a techie guy wearing our school colors that happened to live a few blocks from my dorm. …

Tip #3: Focus on the median, not the average — When I was applying to graduate data science programs, I feel like I was largely shooting around in the dark. I had some idea of the prestige of the schools I was applying to (i.e. …

Wine-Tasting Pythonistas Rejoice! — I’ll be the first to admit — I know nothing about wine. All I know is that occasionally I sip something I like, and most of the time I sip something I really don’t. …

5 simple tricks that got me into 12 data science masters programs — Grad school SOPs: They can feel like such a beast. I wasn’t a perfect student when I was applying to M.S. in Data Science programs; in fact, I was far from it. I had never touched Python, never ran a machine learning algorithm, and hadn’t had a sexy internship at…

How grocery stores are becoming more effective at marketing through data science — Association analysis is a hot topic in data science right now. By discovering relationships between items within large quantities or networks of data, we can glean insights in many areas. These include uncovering unconscious consumer buying patterns at a particular store or through an app (known as market basket transactions)…

This technical interview question will stump you no more. — It all started when I was practicing technical interview questions. My first term as a masters data science student was over, and with sweet relief I went on a brief (but respectable) Netflix bender before switching into diving into technical interview prep. I was feeling confident. Cocky, even. …

And why the world is better than you think — The human race has never been better. No, I’m not being sarcastic, nor was I being paid to say it by <insert big company name here>. For the everyday person across the globe, products are becoming cheaper and more accessible. Women have more education and contraception than in our entire…

5 tips from the book that changed the way I approached data science and inspired my journey as a Medium writer. — Let’s just get these facts out of the way: it’s a weird time to be alive right now. For job seekers especially, it may be hard to focus on seemingly trivial things like drilling 10 more technical interview questions, earning another online certification or building your data science portfolio, as…