by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Feb 21, 2022 | Data Science, Programming
A step-by-step guide on installing setting up VS Code, PowerShell, Python, Git, GitHub, and virtualenv. With pictures! One of the roadblocks of learning data science or any programming, in general, is setting up the development environment on the local machine. So...
by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Feb 13, 2021 | Data Science, Programming
A friendly tutorial on getting zip codes and other geographic data from street addresses. Knowing how to deal with geographic data is a must-have for a data scientist. In this post, we will play around with the MapQuest Search API to get zip codes from street...
by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Jun 14, 2020 | Programming
A visual step-by-step guide to replacing the default terminal application with iTerm2. Over the weekend, I’ve decided to restore my Macbook Pro to factory settings so I can have a clean start at setting up a programming environment. In this post, we’ll...
by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Jun 8, 2020 | Programming
I was bored over the weekend so I decided to restore my Macbook Pro to factory settings so that I can set up my programming environment the proper way. After all, what’s a data scientist without her toys? Let’s start with a replacement to the default...
by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Jun 4, 2020 | Data Science, Programming
I have a recurring dream where my instructor from a coding boot camp would constantly beat my head with a ruler telling me to read a package or library’s documentation. Hence, as a past time, I would find myself digging into Python or Panda’s documentation. Today, I...
by Ednalyn C. De Dios | Jun 3, 2020 | Data Science, Programming
As data scientists, we spent most of our time wrangling knee-deep in manipulating data using Pandas. In this post, we’ll be looking at the .loc property of Pandas to select rows based on some predefined conditions. Let’s open up a Jupyter notebook, and let’s get...
