It’s now reasonable to compliment someone by saying they have the attention span of a goldfish.
Where humans were once thought to be the superior race with an attention span of 12 whole seconds, studies over the last 15 years have shown the average human attention span drop to 8.25…
As someone who failed math in high school, I feel particularly qualified to write this article.
I didn’t know much about the data science world until I stumbled onto Medium and discovered the Towards Data Science publication. From the first article I read, I was hooked.
Data science incorporates everything…
When it comes to breaking into the field of data science, you need to use every trick in the book to give yourself that one advantage that pushes you over the finish line.
So why not try to emulate the habits of the best in the business?
This article isn’t…
Learning a new programming language is much like learning to speak a new natural language.
However, as I’m sure many of my bilingual and polyglot friends would agree, it can sometimes get confusing to switch between two or more languages.
For example, my native language is English, but I was…
I wash my clothes in cold water. I buy my produce from local farmers. I only eat meat on special occasions. I religiously keep my showers to less than 10 minutes. I haven’t purchased a pair of jeans in four years. I drive a car that gets 40 miles per…
The one thing everyone in the industry can agree on is that data science is hard to learn.
Like learning to golf, you could spend every day on the data science golf course that is coding, mathematics, and industry knowledge, and still not have mastered the game by the time…
Canada remains one of the top destinations for students looking to complete graduate studies as it boasts some of the top universities in the world, coupled with beautiful scenery from coast to coast and a rich, welcoming culture that makes anyone feel at home.
When it comes to a master's…
I can tell you right now that you’re going about learning data science the wrong way.
Sure, you may eventually become a data scientist, but is the process going to be as smooth and painless as it possibly could be? …
200 days ago, I embarked on learning my third language.
My English and French were fluent, which meant that it was time for a new challenge (I also began working for a company where I’m the only bilingual person and everyone else is a polyglot so I knew I had…
Having failed math before, I was going into my first undergraduate-level statistics course in fear.
I was afraid of more than just mathematics though. I was afraid of the lack of career opportunities I would have if I couldn’t get through a simple statistics course. Obsessed with the thought of…
