My first data science project I first started to work on the list from the Malilink website during October 2017. I was stunned that I haven’t heard about it before (that goes to show that don’t read all my emails; I joined the platform few years earlier and I was on the mailing list). My first approach was to copy from the website and paste into an Excel spreadsheet (at that time, I hadn’t learned about the miracles of web scraping packages - I’m almost ashamed to admit it).
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Last year, I made a new friend. She (yes, it’s a “she”) introduced me to Kaggle. I had no idea what that was. She was amused, and I slightly embarrassed. I, who think of myself as a worldly man, modern, aware of what happening here and there (yes, I get sometimes caught up a delusion of grandeur in my head), had no clue what Kaggle was. She proposed that we train together to enter a competition.
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