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5 Reasons Why Aspiring Data Scientists Should Join Hackathons in 2021

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By John Bica
| Towards Data Science
Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash I recently participated in my first hackathon which was a highly positive experience despite my initial worries. I had little to no software engineering or development experience coming into it. And I always believed hackathons were reserved for tech gurus who knew a lot more about full-stack development and product creation than I did. However, I was wrong. I brought much more value to the event than expected, and even more that I walked away with.
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Home Field Advantage: Does It Exist Without Fans?

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By John Bica, Marcel Moosbrugger, M Khorasani, Federico Mannucci
| Towards Data Science
Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst In most sports, it has widely believed that the home team has a significant advantage over the visiting team, commonly known as the home advantage. This can be due to a variety of factors but two of the most popular reasons cited are fan presence and the players’ familiarity and comfort with the environment. An iconic example of the latter is the “Green Monster” wall at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox.
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7 Key Operations for Data Wrangling in R or Python

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By John Bica, Javier Ideami, James Briggs, Christopher Zita
| Towards Data Science
We will use the Rain in Australia dataset available on Kaggle. We first need to load in needed packages and read the csv file into dataframes using functions.
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Why does your Machine Learning Ops feel inadequate?

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By Vishnu Prathish, JL Marechaux, Benoit Pimpaud, John Bica
| Towards Data Science
Every time I design a new microservice, there is a TODO checklist that I check against. An early item in this list is about setting up CI/CD for the new service. I think about what the artifacts are and how they get formed at various stages. I consider how it eventually gets deployed to production and how it gets monitored post-deployment. This situation is not unique to me. Modern software engineering practices implement well-thought CI/CD principles as a norm.
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