Want to read more? Six tips to help you enjoy more books
I love talking about reading. I’m not talking about reading specific books but the actual hobby of reading. I love to discuss people’s reading rout...
Am I predictable in how I rate books?
I’ve been using Goodreads consistently for the last 8 years to line up future reads and rate books I’ve read. Recently, I exported these 8 years’ w...
Analysing my Goodreads data
I’ve been curious to analyse my reading behaviour for a while. Do I read more now than I used to? What’s the balance between fiction and non-ficti...
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
5 stars. This book took me around 4-5 months to finish, yet only because I wanted to ensure I read it when I could absorb the rich content it offe...
Book Review: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Whilst I have no intention of making this blog about books and their reviews, I do like to read and feel it would be useful to note some things I l...
Adding tasks quickly through Notion
One of my favourite apps for productivity on the Mac is Alfred. It’s a suped up version of Spotlight or for the windows comparison it’s like the Wi...
Want to read more? Six tips to help you enjoy more books
I love talking about reading. I’m not talking about reading specific books but the actual hobby of reading. I love to discuss people’s reading rout...
What price should you charge for your Airbnb?
Maybe you have a place that you’re fortunate enough to be able to potentially put on Airbnb but you’re not sure if it’s worth the hassle. With Airb...
T-shaped people
A T-shaped person is someone who is capable in many things and an expert in at least one. This is a phrase I learnt about recently and I like to th...
7 basic git commands to get you started
Getting started in git takes 10 minutes and provides a quick and simple way to ensure your scripts are saved online and gain version control. It’s ...
Learning new vs. applying 'learnt'
I’m not sure how much I’ve ‘learnt’ in the past week and I think this is because it really depends on what learning something means. Often I find m...
Welcome to my data blog
I’m currently taking some time off working to travel with my partner around Latin America. We plan to be away for some time and I plan on using som...
Disaster Response Classification API
Taking a dataset from Appen containing 30,000 messages received during disasters in the last few decades, I created a machine learning pipeline to ...
What price should you charge for your Airbnb?
Maybe you have a place that you’re fortunate enough to be able to potentially put on Airbnb but you’re not sure if it’s worth the hassle. With Airb...
Am I predictable in how I rate books?
I’ve been using Goodreads consistently for the last 8 years to line up future reads and rate books I’ve read. Recently, I exported these 8 years’ w...
Disaster Response Classification API
Taking a dataset from Appen containing 30,000 messages received during disasters in the last few decades, I created a machine learning pipeline to ...
COVID-19 Flask dashboard to assess the situation in the UK and France
Like everyone, and maybe more than most, I’ve been following closely along with news of lockdowns, waves, travel corridors, tier systems and all th...
What price should you charge for your Airbnb?
Maybe you have a place that you’re fortunate enough to be able to potentially put on Airbnb but you’re not sure if it’s worth the hassle. With Airb...
Am I predictable in how I rate books?
I’ve been using Goodreads consistently for the last 8 years to line up future reads and rate books I’ve read. Recently, I exported these 8 years’ w...
Creating an AB test calculator with both Frequentist and Bayesian approaches
Statistical analysis is more than a set of computations This is one of the “Ten simple rules for effective statistical practice” outlined by a...
Creating an AB test sample size app
Frequently having to calculate sample sizes for AB tests, I decided to create my own application for this, originally in a Jupyter Notebook and lat...
Analysing my Goodreads data
I’ve been curious to analyse my reading behaviour for a while. Do I read more now than I used to? What’s the balance between fiction and non-ficti...
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Matplotlib graph: deaths per day in the UK due to Covid-19
Using the wealth of data coming in to play with some of Python’s visualisation modules. This graph was created using a dataset readily available he...
A Basic Command Line Application
Continuing with Al Sweigert’s ‘Automate the boring stuff with Python’ book and course, I completed the first section ‘Python Programming Basics’. I...
Working through 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' by Al Sweigart
I’ve recently started working through this book in a course on Udemy run by the author himself, for free. Al Sweigart appears to be making every e...
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
The Central Limit Theorem is such an important and fundamental theorem of probability and statistics that it pops up all over the place. You’ll see...
Creating an AB test calculator with both Frequentist and Bayesian approaches
Statistical analysis is more than a set of computations This is one of the “Ten simple rules for effective statistical practice” outlined by a...
Creating an AB test sample size app
Frequently having to calculate sample sizes for AB tests, I decided to create my own application for this, originally in a Jupyter Notebook and lat...
The difference between Binomial and Bernoulli distributions
Until only recently I believed there were Bernoulli trials and a Binomial distribution and a Bernoulli distribution does not exist. It was my under...
Hypothesis testing using permutation tests
There are many statistical methods for rejecting or failing to reject a null hypothesis. I want to run through Permutation tests and when you might...
COVID-19 Flask dashboard to assess the situation in the UK and France
Like everyone, and maybe more than most, I’ve been following closely along with news of lockdowns, waves, travel corridors, tier systems and all th...
Docker images vs. containers - how I explained it to myself
I used Docker and containers recently as a way to simplify deploying web apps on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform. I kind of hacked my...
Creating an AB test calculator with both Frequentist and Bayesian approaches
Statistical analysis is more than a set of computations This is one of the “Ten simple rules for effective statistical practice” outlined by a...
Creating an AB test sample size app
Frequently having to calculate sample sizes for AB tests, I decided to create my own application for this, originally in a Jupyter Notebook and lat...
Reduce your Heroku slug size
Finally built an app on Heroku but it takes forever to load when you share it? It doesn’t give the best first impression when people have to wait a...