This blog is an analysis of winning numbers of Irish Lotto from last two years. The National Lottery brought new initiatives from Thursday, September 3, 2015, with adding two numbers to the draw meaning players choose from 47 numbers rather than 45 numbers. With this change, the odds of picking the six winning numbers went from just […]
Dietary allergens are part of everyday life. There is no quick fix to eliminate them from our diet. Due to the nature of prevailing allergies, they are not confined to a specific minority or majority, they do not differentiate between ethnicity or gender and they do not show quarter when they target infant new-borns or the elderly. […]
Living in Dublin, Ireland is amazingly expensive. Residential property prices in Dublin are growing. Yet we all think about buying a home while still wondering whether we might be better off continuing to rent. The data analyst in me wanted to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, to visualize the trends, etc. to […]
The aim of this blog is to assess the quality and characteristics of the diamonds and gain insights about what makes a really good diamond. The data set is from ggplot2. The explanatory data analysis is done in Python and the notebooks are available on my Github. This blog address few important questions such as: […]
So much has been said about Proteins, Fat & Calories in recent years, that the single biggest challenge faced when trying to answer the question is how to “separate the wheat from the chaff.” Protein and fats are what our body uses and they all have calorie counts. Too many and we get fat, too […]
I recently took part in a challenge by Hostelworld. The challenge proposed by Hostelworld is to build a recommendation engine for users. Recommendations can save Recommendations can save travellers valuable time, improve their hostel experience, and increase user retention. This challenge will use user information, reviews, and hostel details. This is a link for Exploratory […]
Visualisation is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format. It enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually, so they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. This visualisation of house prices is for the Kaggle dataset. With 79 explanatory variables describing (almost) every aspect of residential homes in Ames, Iowa, […]
These are mainly notes for myself to win a Data Science competition , but I figured that they might be of interest to some of the blog readers too. Comments on what is written below are most welcome! Typically, steps 1-5 would happen once per competition or problem, while steps 6-9 would be repeated in a […]