In between juggling my capstone project and lessons, I had not updated the last four weeks of my time at DSI. But here is the final review to make up for it! The final four weeks were spent learning about Bayesian statistics, Hadoop, Spark, forecasting time series, Flask, Recommender Systems with a brief overview on…

  Short Week != Less Work A four-day week punctuated by Deepavali celebrations on Wednesday, but I suspect most of my classmates are not celebrating much (like me). The shorter week was characterised by lessons in NLP topics such as sentiment analysis, topic modelling and Naive Bayes, and — what else — more work on…

With just about five weeks left until graduation, most of the class spent a great deal of time on their capstone project during the week. Milestone 2 was on Friday and milestone 3 is just seven days away; the reality of things quickly settle in when you have so many deadlines to meet. I personally…

We are at the halfway mark! Six weeks left until the end of DSI. I missed the blog update on Week 5, but these last two weeks were spent on Project 3, where the goal was to try and predict housing prices using the Ames housing dataset found on Kaggle. Compared to the last two…