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 over eight million to one…
Guide for Linear Regression using Python – Part 2 This blog is the continuation of guide for linear regression using Python from this post. There must be no correlation among independent variables. Multicollinearity is the presence of correlation in independent variables. If variables are correlated, it becomes extremely difficult for the model to determine the true effect of X on…
Regression is the first algorithm we need to master if we are aspiring to become a data scientist. It is one of the easiest algorithms to learn yet requires understanding and effort to get to the master it. In this blog is a guide for linear regression using Python. It will focus on linear and multiple regression. We will learn the…
In this blog, we will be predicting NBA winners with Decision Trees and Random Forests in Scikit-learn.The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the major men’s professional basketball league in North America and is widely considered to be the premier men’s professional basketball league in the world. It has 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The data…
Bitcoin has been in news quite a bit lately with the price soaring. It was named the top performing currency four of the last five year. And it’ price has the potential to hit over $100,000 in 10 years, which would mark a 3,483 percent rise from its recent record high. In this post, we are modeling Bitcoin’s Market Capitalization. Bitcoin…
Throughout history, the technological advances have raised fears that traditional jobs will become obsolete. In this post, I find out the jobs which are most susceptible to automation. Elon Musk told the National Governors Association: “There certainly will be job disruption. Because what’s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. … I mean…
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. Allergies target humans as a…
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 help me decide. With all…