My experience with the course and the book from “fastai” Image by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay The Background I started Practical Deep Learning for Coders 10 days ago. I am compelled to say their pragmatic approach is exactly what I needed. I started data science by learning Python, Pandas, NumPy, and whatever I needed in a short … Continue reading 10 Days With “Deep Learning for Coders”
Three Life Lessons
How to re-define Learning, Failures, and Motivation to find more fulfillment in life Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash These definitions are what life has taught me. I have not read these in a book or watched in a video. These are my personal experiences and I used to think the opposite earlier. For learning, … Continue reading Three Life Lessons
Some key things I learned from Google’s “ Introduction to Machine Learning Problem Framing” MOOC
I will get directly to the point: See if you can solve the problem without using ML. Sometimes a simple heuristic is good enough. Be clear about what you want and state it without using ML. Write your desired outcome in simple EnglishWhat do you expect the model to output?What kind of ML problem you are … Continue reading Some key things I learned from Google’s “ Introduction to Machine Learning Problem Framing” MOOC
How I Used Corona Pandemic Lockdown – 2
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Two months ago I wrote about my plan on how I am going to utilize this Corona-virus pandemic lock-down. You can read it here. For these two months Only hospitals were open and vegetable/groceries shops were open for few hours a day. We are still in Unlock-1 phase. Lock-down in … Continue reading How I Used Corona Pandemic Lockdown – 2
The Getting Hired Mindset
Photo by Free To Use Sounds on Unsplash The Background In 2008, I gave my first interview for the position of a software developer. And from then onward so far I have appeared in some 12–13 interviews and passed 4–5 of them. It was a tough time, not because of the technical nature of the … Continue reading The Getting Hired Mindset
How I Used Corona Pandemic Lockdown
Almost everyone of us was contained inside our homes since March because of the Coronavirus/Covid19 pandemic. Indian was under total lock-down. Only hospitals were open and vegetable/groceries shops were open for few hours a day. We are still in Unlock-1 phase. We rarely went outside and I was spending awful lot of time on internet, … Continue reading How I Used Corona Pandemic Lockdown
Data Science Career
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash What is the biggest obstacle in shifting your career to Data Science or Machine Learning: No Masters/PhD?Lack of programming skills?You don’t know how to write advanced SQL queries?Less number of people in your network, offline/online?Not knowing Statistics?Don’t know Python well?You are not very good at Pandas and Scikit-learn?Can’t get … Continue reading Data Science Career
A Question of Usability
Source: Wikipedia I wrote this blog post because I did a few mistakes while starting-out as a data scientist. I think a lot of people are making the same transition and you may be one of them or you know one or a few of them. I don't want you to do the same mistakes, … Continue reading A Question of Usability
The Math of Data Science – 3
I am halfway through my journey of being enough Mathematically literate to understand and work comfortably with Data Science books, posts, articles and journals. This is 3rd article in series, here are part-1 and part-2. Before I go on I want to reiterate few things which have established my way of learning and working. … Continue reading The Math of Data Science – 3
My Journey into Data Science
This post came out of the inspiration I got after I read Rafael Knuth's Learning Sabbatical. I read part 1 of his sabbatical too and I felt compelled to put my experience and future plan . Background: After graduating as Bachelors of Science (general) from Panjab Univeristy, I wanted to study further but did not … Continue reading My Journey into Data Science
Arnuld on Data 