Welcome to my blog!

I plan to use this website to present data explorations and analyses in a way that’s understandable to a broad audience. I hope to demonstrate the utility of applying ideas like machine learning, data visualization, and exploratory data analysis to day-to-day life to improve decision-making processes.

I was inspired to create a blog after reading this post by David Robinson.

New blog post: "Advice to aspiring data scientists: start a blog" https://t.co/yMDHqviiBN #rstats pic.twitter.com/9AdPUdbjtE

— David Robinson (@drob) November 14, 2017

I’m a big believer in treating data analysis as an iterative process, and I hope this blog will reinforce the idea that nearly anyone can learn the skills to do data analysis. I’m going to try as hard as I can to avoid the buzzwords and esoteric language that unnecessarily obfuscate data science discussions, so that this blog is accessible to an audience with varying levels of mathematical and statistical sophistication. That being said, I’ll still try to sneak a few data science nuggets for the hardcore data nerds out there!

I’ll mostly be using the R programming language to extract and manipulate data (you’ll find out I’m a huge tidyverse fan), but you may see me using a bit of Python as well (usually scikit-learn and some web scraping with BeautifulSoup).

Thanks for checking my blog out!