Introduction I recently became a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Trusted Tester, after completing an 80 hour training program and passing two exams. Whew! It’s rigorous but was a great introduction to the world of accessibility and I am happy to be able to complete web audits and assist organizations in improving their accessibility. (Also,…
Category: Information Technology
Using Pandas to Iterate Through a List of Files
Introduction For my Eastern University capstone, I had a few project ideas. One of them involved analyzing IRS XML data to predict nonprofit failure. Although I didn’t end up going with that idea (because so many of the records contain data quality issues), I did end up writing a number of data cleaning functions to…
DTSC-650 Data Analytics in R Tips
Introduction As a student in Eastern University’s Master of Science in Data Science, I recently completed a course in basic data analytics with R. I had never worked with R but this was probably my favorite course in the whole program. Tidyverse The tidyverse is a set of packages used for data science including dplyr…
When a New Package Kills Your Python Kernel: A Guide
Introduction We’ve all been there. You go to accomplish what seems like a small change, tweak or update to a computer program and everything goes bananas. In my case, I was downloading the package handson-ml2, the companion to the excellent machine learning textbook. The terminal code was supposed to have me create a virtual environment…
Business Analyst versus Data Analyst
Introduction There are a lot of “Analyst” careers out there. Some people analyze information for national security or criminal purposes (Intelligence Analysts.) Some people are Help Desk Analysts, where their job involves understanding a person’s computer or technical issues so they can help. Financial Analysts help companies understand financial information in order to make decisions….