Sean Parker
Data. Python. Learning.
Recent Posts
Sat 16 September 2017
What variables might affect the total crime rate?
When it comes to the issue of crime, one of the questions we'd like to answer is what factors have a relationship with crime. In this analysis, I'll be looking at data for the counties of New York State for the year of 2016. The article Variables Affecting Crime will serve as the guide to what variables I will choose initially for the analysis. These are the steps I'll be taking:
Mon 28 August 2017
Short Review of Jose Portilla's Data Science Course
When I started to get interested in the field of Data Science I found Jose Portilla's course on Udemy titled Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp. Since I already knew some Python I decided to purchase the course during a sale that Udemy was running (I have know …
Sun 20 August 2017
Why do people prefer steak cooked differently?
I stumbled across this dataset while looking through some of the datasets on FiveThirtyEight's github page. The data comes from a survey of 550 people that evaluates what types of risky behavior they engage in as well as how they prefer their steak cooked. There is an article on the results of the survey along with a link to the data here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-americans-like-their-steak/