Rows & Columns
I’ve been on a lot of interviews over the past 16 months, like a lot. More than a dozen. One of the questions that always comes up is some variant of:
“Tell me about yourself”
“What’s your background?”
“How did you become interested in data science?”
So I’m going to use this space to talk about my data science journey. I’m only partly doing this under duress (thanks General Assembly — more on that later!).
Read MoreI spent the last 5 years working as a pollster so I saw a lot of banner books — big hulking books filled with crosstabulations. Crosstabs, for those unfamiliar, display the distributions of survey responses by different groups within your data. I conditioned myself to read and understand crosstabs, that’s now the way I think about data and find patterns in data. As I’ve started doing more work in data science in Python (and Pandas more specifically), one of the first things I figured out was how to recreate crosstabs.
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