Understanding python as a data scientist is an important skill. It might not be the main part of what it takes for us to succeed in this field. But it will be something that will allow us to do our jobs to the best of our ability. This will be…

For my blog post I am going to take you through my first group project. The purpose of this project is to enhance and apply our exploratory data analysis, data cleansing and data visualization skills to a real-world problem or scenario. We first started off with the question. Microsoft has…

Hello my name is Alec Mills, I am a Computer Science Graduate form the University of Kansas. My data science journey begins when I was in high school. This is where I learned web design and really found my passion for working on computers. Learned HTML and CSS and used…

In Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction, She talks about how in the health insurance industry they also targeted the lower class. This created another line in the sand or just another hoop to jump through for people to get out of the lower class. They used the same…

In Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction, She talks about how the 1950’s Banking model works. She talked about how it was mostly a small town or that the banker would likely know who you are, and what your family dealings have been. They don’t often want to make…

In Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction she talks about how WMD’s are used to keep people working low wage jobs from ever going up in the ladder and also making the companies more money. These numbers came from OR’s (Operations Research). These numbers were developed during world war…

In Kathy O’neill book Weapons of Math Destruction, She talks about how she was working at her company before targeting ads became to be. The company that she was with was starting to implement this idea. The idea is that they can target a specific group of people that might…

Cathy O’Neil Says in her book Weapons of Math Destruction, she says that the Algorithms had a negative impact on admissions for the students. This is because the schools made it harder to get in to make their ranking go up. Again these rankings were not based off of the…

Blog 4: Financial Crisis and Big Data In the book Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil says she became disillusioned by Weapons of Math Destruction (WMDs), because she saw the misuse of mathematics was accelerating. She saw that numerous groups were being intimidated, and controlled by algorithms. She even went…