Let's face it: for many of us parents, the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic pandemic couldn't have come at a worse time. Not only do we have a legitimate fear of dying every time we step out of the house into a public place, we also have to face the reality that schools around the U.S. will be closed for over a month more ...

I've never been an avid blogger. Perhaps because it's tedious to come up with material for a general purpose blog, or perhaps because I never felt I had any novel material to contiribute to society as a whole. The deeper I've delved in to world of data science, however, the more I've seen how integral blogging has become to the expansion and success of this field. Blog posts are where machine learning pioneers first share their findings, and simultaneously where budding data scientists look for others in their same position — students floundering their way through the ever-expanding technological and mathematical barriers to entry. More than once, I've found myself in the same shoes: scouring blogs for tips on career changes, statistical concepts, applicable code and success stories.

Now, more than two years after my initial forray into the world of Python, I'm taking the advice of fast.ai more ...