Tag: worldquant university
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[Learning Data Science] WQU DS Lab Project 4
About Project 4: Earthquake Damage in Nepal In this project, we used data from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake to create predictive models. Given the characteristics of a building, the models should predict if the building would suffer severe damages in an earthquake. The key learnings in this project are: How were these learnings taught in…
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[Learning Data Science] WQU Applied Data Science Lab Project 3
About Project 3: Air Quality in Nairobi Using data from openAfrica, we looked at air quality data (sensor readings of PM 2.5) in Nairobi, Lagos and Dar es Salaam. We learn how to access data from a MongoDB database, and how to deal with time series data. These are the key learnings for Project 3,…
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[Learning Data Science] WQU Applied Data Science Lab Project 2
I want to document the skills that I am learning from my WQU Applied Data Science Lab course. The course features 8 projects for instruction and experience in working with real data. This is how Project 2 went: About Project 2 Housing in Buenos Aires In Project 1, we learned how to analyze data and…
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[Learning Data Science] WQU Applied Data Science Lab Project 1
I want to document the skills that I am learning from my WQU Applied Data Science Lab course. The course features 8 projects for instruction and experience in working with real data. Let’s dive into my first ever Data Science project! About Project 1 ‘Housing in Mexico’ Project 1 uses data on properties for sale…
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I enrolled in a Data Science course!
I enrolled in WorldQuant University’s Applied Data Science Lab (it’s free!). It was recommended to me by a friend who walked away from her PhD program in South Korea, and spent a good part of her break learning Data Science. When I asked her what “Data Science” is like, she said “it’s just like processing…
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