This morning I've been playing "spot the difference" - a simple enough task: use a bash shell script to get 2 strings from a user (first name and second name) and then evaluate whether the 2 strings are the same or different. I had a template for the script and everything from the edX course,... Continue Reading →
Today I'm ploughing my way through the edX Introduction to Linux and found myself wondering "whyyyy??". It's all quite entertaining and nifty, but how will I be using this later? Naturally I googled (using bing!) and found this wonderful online resource www.datascienceatthecommandline.com. After reading the section entitled "A Real-world Use Case" involving data for New York... Continue Reading →
As a newbie, I've been receiving files via email, copying them to my Jupyter Notebook folder, running my script, emailing the resulting outputs back to my customer. As a prospective data scientist I've been feeling positively embarrassed about this ridiculously low-tech process! Thanks to my colleagues Shaun and Christine, I've been set onto the path... Continue Reading →
Sho't left to data science 