Lessons from a Collaboration Project: AI for Disaster Response
The project Between March and May 2020, I got an opportunity to engage in volunteer work geared toward solving a real-world problem using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal of the task was to build an AI tool able to predict the quantity of food and…
Data Exploration and Visualization: A step by step Guide through Twitter Sentimental Analysis
This second article of a series of articles on Twitter Sentimental Analysis from the first one I did on text processing, explores another interesting stage of machine learning project called data exploration and visualization. Data exploration involves taking a deeper look at the data to…
Text Processing: A Step by Step Guide through Twitter Sentimental Analysis
According to Taweh Beysolow, “Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science that is focused on allowing computers to understand language in a ‘natural’ way, as humans do.” NLP has evolved so rapidly gaining traction in its applications inn artificial intelligence (AI). Some…
Looking Back the Year 2019; Celebrating Milestones
New Year 2019 When a New Year begins, some people write down goals and wishes for the year. Understandably, these are things they wish to accomplish before the year culminates. Oftentimes, there is an overwhelming hype to make resolutions for the year. Personally, I have…
Diabetes Prediction using Machine Learning in Python
Wikipedia defines Machine learning as the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. Machine learning focusses on the development of computer systems that can access data…
This is My Story: My data Science Journey
So how did it start? My data science journey begun 3 years ago with a desire and a passion to get to this field. It developed so much that by 2018 I decided to start learning. Learning data science has been accompanied by an array…
Visualizing Distribution plots in Python Using Seaborn
Data visualization is the graphical or pictorial presentation of data for a better understanding of its correlations and patterns. Data visualization is a very important step in data science. This, therefore, requires every data scientist or analyst to be able to master the intrigues behind…
5 Reasons Every Aspiring Data Scientist Must Learn SQL
With massive data currently available, businesses and industries are collecting and churning out billions of data every day. The big data phenomenon requires a proper skill set to be able to make meaning out of it — be it in the medical field, education, business, sports,…
How to update data in a table in MySQL
In the previous article, I gave an introduction to SQL using MySQL database management system. The article laid a foundation of SQL by briefly explaining how to create a database, create a table, insert data into a table and use select statement to explore the…
Getting Started with SQL for Data Science: 4 Things you need to master
What is SQL? Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standard database language used to create, maintain and retrieve relational databases. As a data scientist, you will find many instances where you will be required to work with relational databases (data stores in tables like excel)….