Web Scraping Using Beautiful Soup 4, Requests & Pandas

Web Scraping Using Beautiful Soup 4, Requests & Pandas

The following text is an abridged and edited transcript of the video that follows at the end of this post. Time codes are provided in the below text to help you follow along in the video. I want to share with you how I think about web scraping, the process of...

Mastering the Art of Negotiating

Regardless of your job, being able to negotiate is a critical skill for success. For data scientists, negotiating helps you to: Resolve conflicting views of the effectiveness of a certain model. Request more resources (i.e., $$$) for your data science team. Make a...

The Hardest Part About Self-Teaching Data Science (or Anything Else)

Here’s something we can all relate to: Self-teaching is hard, mainly because you don’t have structure, which is key no matter what you’re learning. Structure cultivates resolve, prevents distractions, and, most importantly, creates results. While reading Daily...

Is Business Acumen a Hard Requirement for Data Science?

I recently ran across this post on LinkedIn: A few of the follow-up comments also caught my eye (emphasis mine): You make excellent points! Maybe part of the disconnect is not knowing how to use business acumen. It is useful in all levels, but I suppose it is more...

How to Become a Better Communicator

I was recently on StackExchange and Reddit and came across two interesting posts that really caught my attention. [Highlights mine.] “How can I become better on explaining the code to other developers?” “Communicating Data Science” Both of these posts speak to a...