Mar 6, 2021Disillusion Avalon: Board Game Data AnalysisHow would social deduction games look like with data? — Introduction: Board Game! Avalon, or The Resistance, is an exceptionally popular board game. Players are randomly and secretly assigned a role belonging to one of two possible forces (Good or Evil in Avalon; Resistance or Spy in the original Resistance game), and should act based on their affiliation in order to win. Although…Data Science15 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Sep 15, 2020Overlooking Crime in New York City amid the Pandemic and ProtestsWhat kind of story does the crime data tell about NYC in 2020 so far? — Introduction: What is going on with NYC? These days, the crime rate in New York City got very conflicting ideas. Some politicians said violent crime is rampaging in the big apple, but some others said it is safer than ever before due to the lockdown. With the upcoming election, I think this is just one of the…New York8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Aug 19, 2020Cross-column-based Data Manipulation in PythonCleaning and feature engineering data based on multiple columns in both single commands and ETL processes — Let’s suppose your manager gives you a random dataset and told you to do a “basic” cleaning: “Keep only the records that have values in column A, B, and C or the records don’t have any value in those three columns at all“. How would you approach that? Introduction Feature engineering…Data Science7 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 26, 2020Spot the Curve: Visualization of Cases Data on CoronavirusAn attempt to investigate the “curve” through visualization — [2020/6/4 Update | I have built a web app about tracking the latest numbers with Dash and Plotly. I will write up another article but please feel free to try it now. https://spot-the-curve-coronavirus.herokuapp.com/] At the time of the writing (26th March 2020), Coronavirus (COVID-19) has wreaked havoc on our society…Data Science9 min read
Dec 24, 2019Python 線上課程心得-Applied Data Science with Python by UMNA Review for Python/DS Online Courses in Mandarin — 2018年底，我上完了入門的 Python for Everybody 系列課程 (推薦心得)，對 Python 有一些了解。在那時間點、我的碩士申請也已經告一段落，因此這時的學習目標轉變了一點。因為我不需要再充實我的履歷內容，所以當時不再強調快速有效率，而是要「增加 coding 能力與實際操作 Data Science 的經驗」。 也因為上一 …Coursera9 min read
Nov 7, 2019Exploring NYC - Analysis of Crime Data in New York CityUsing NYPD Complaint Data to analyze crime events in different boroughs. — Introduction When I moved to New York City, I kept hearing different people saying the same thing: I should watch out for the city in terms of personal safety. Even though, historically, NYC has become a much safer place than before (The troll tourist guide about New York in the 1970s…Python9 min read
Jul 9, 2019F2P Data|選擇 BA 線上課程 & 第一堂 Python 課為了要申請 Business Analytics/BA/MIS 相關碩士，我開始 Data Science/Business Analytics 的自學。本文分享當初如何選擇第一堂 Python 線上課與 Python for Everybody on Coursera 心得 — 2018年中，為了要申請 Business Analytics/BA/MIS 碩士，我就開始 Data Science/Business Analytics 的自學。但身為一個大學不太碰數學，只有基礎統計和 R 知識的商院人，一開始面對滿滿的學習資源真的很選擇障礙…。我相信隨機挑一個課程，效果都不會太差，但最重要的是：如何最快最有效率的幫助我的 …Coursera10 min read
