While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
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Presented 3 at a time.

Sandwich Data Science 2: Electric Boogaloo

Ethan Rosenthal

A good old linear regression and Italian food. What more could you ask for?

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

A fascinating visual essay that utilizes the Lempel-Ziv algorithm (which powers GIFs, PNGs, and most archive formats) to analyze if pop songs are becoming more repetitive.

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Why using SQL before using Pandas?

Oleg Żero

An explanation with examples illustrating the motivation to use SQL for fetching data from a database instead of directly loading the data into Pandas.

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