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Coinbase vs. IRS

I normally keep my cryptocurrency stuff relegated to Twitter, but this is some news that should be interesting to anyone who is curious about such things…

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How to spend $293 in 4 days on Google Cloud Platform

I’ve been using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) lately for an application I’m building, and I realized yesterday that I only had 4 days left to spend my remaining $293 in free credit for use on GCP. By the way, Google gives you $300 to spend...

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Site Update

I’ve updated the Projects and About pages to contain a list of projects I’m proud of and… well just a better About page. You still have to go over to GitHub to view my projects, but at least they are listed here now!

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Are you down with PHP?

It’s amazing how quickly I can forget certain syntax and attributes of languages, and then even more amazing how quickly they come back to me. That said, I’m having to revisit an old friend of mine, PHP, which I haven’t used since approximately 2003, when...

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Ordering food for a wedding, using python

I got married in late September and since money was tight for the wedding, I ended up writing a python script that helped to order exactly the correct amount of entrees. In the process of doing so I created what is probably the most humorous...

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Cross Validation of my Lending Club model

Several months ago, one of my assignments was to perform a multivariate analysis of Lending Club data to see if I could come up with a model that would accurately predict the interest rate offered to a potential lendee, given several indicators such as FICO...

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Highlights from Extract data science conference

Last week I attended the Extract data science conference in San Francisco that was sponsored by import.io. Mostly I attended the “Data Stories” sessions, where people from various companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Yelp, and others presented on some of the problems they...

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Hello, my name is Ty and this is my blog.

Well, I’m back from the honeymoon and back at work on my data science coursework. A little background on me: I’m an industrial engineer by education and recently quit my job as a business consultant / data analyst type person to pursue a career in...

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My first Jekyll post

Cool, Jekyll is up and running and I’ve now got a blog for my data science work. That was way easier than it was in the year 2000.

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