Introduction I recently finished the MS in Data Science at Eastern University. This is a 30-credit program that is designed to be taken part-time and finished in 10 or 20 months (depending on whether you take 2 courses or 1 at a time.) The program uses accelerated 7-week courses and has 6 terms per year…
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DTSC-691 Example Project Proposal: Predicting Nonprofit Collapse Using IRS Data
Introduction At Eastern University’s Master of Science in Data Science Capstone course (DTSC-691), you are required to write up a proposal for a data science project. I actually evaluated several ideas before deciding on the one that I went with. One of those ideas I carried as far as writing a proposal and doing the…
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-670 Tips and Tricks
Introduction DTSC-670 is the Foundations of Machine Learning Course at Eastern University. It’s a good course, definitely stretches your knowledge of matplotlib, Python, and scikit-learn as you learn how to build machine learning models and evaluate them. The purpose of this article is to explore some of the concepts in the course and give you…
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…