by The Data School | May 3, 2022 | Sebastian van Gerwen
Last week, I achieved a machine learning milestone I have been working towards for the last six months – I came in the top 10 (6th place) of Kaggle’s April Tabular Playground Series competition. This competition pits ML practitioners together on simulated...
by The Data School | Nov 5, 2021 | Sebastian van Gerwen
It’s the final day of dashboard week! Today there was no particular challenge – just make a dashboard! Our data was the Melbourne Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) data. And wow, is this data big! It has land use and demographic data from over 10000...
by The Data School | Nov 5, 2021 | Sebastian van Gerwen
I write this blog at the end of the second-last day of dashboard week. Only one more day (and dashboard) to go! Today’s challenge was formula one data from here. This was particularly challenging to me because I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about formula...
by The Data School | Nov 4, 2021 | Sebastian van Gerwen
Dashboard week is more than halfway over! Today’s challenge was building a dashboard from web-scraped plane crash data. While the format of the website was simple, some unforeseen challenges made the web-scraping process much more difficult than I thought it would be....
by The Data School | Nov 3, 2021 | Sebastian van Gerwen
Although today’s focus was on loading data from API, the Whiskey Hunter API that we used was simple. Connecting to the API and downloading all available data was no problem for this week. Instead, this blog will focus on my main area of difficulty in designing the...
by The Data School | Nov 1, 2021 | Sebastian van Gerwen, The Data School
Dashboard week has begun! To begin, we are looking at data from the ACNC Australian registered charities and non-for-profit commission. This week’s biggest challenge was finding a story in the relatively sparse data. The majority of the data is dummy variables...
