cole-maclean

Hi all,

I created this as part of Udacity's Data Science nanodegree. It uses metadata provided by Arxiv's API to build a categorization model for the scientific disciplines, using each papers title to build a "bag of words" vectorized model and then allocates each paper to a category based on the contents in its summary abstract. Each category grows out of a "parent category", sorted by a simple difference in words of the categorical labels.

Part of the project is to publish the visualization to gain feedback from users, so if you have any suggestions or feedback, please let me know! It's certainly not perfect by any means, but being my first data visualization and first exposure to programming with a javascript framework(d3.js), I'm quite proud of it.

I plan on writing up a blog post about the development of this, mostly for myself to reflect on the personal growth (and sometimes frustrating!) experience, that hopefully others find interesting or informative. For now, I need to focus on finish up the nanodegree (A/B testing next!)

-Cole

As part of transitioning to a career in data science/AI, I'm currently enrolled in Udacity's Data Science nanodegree. As part of that, one of the projects was to pick an interesting dataset to perform some exploratory data analysis on using the R programming language. I chose to explore some MLB statistics in relation to Fanduel Scores. Thought some of you might be interested.

This analysis doesn't even come close to exploring all the available relationships, but was a fun project and I discovered some useful information to aid in building a predictive model.

Hope others enjoy it.

-Cole

You're absolutely right. Don't worrying, you're not breaking me down, it's all valid and solid advice. Sounds like I got too excited in both my motivation statement and posting the site. I've diabled the site, but hopefully I can take all the comments here and post a nearly final version.

Okay, I've clearly jumped the gun here. I'm going to take it down, but I really appreciate everyone’s comments. I'm glad that I can use the advice I've already received here, and use it to make a final draft that might be more appropriate to post.

Thanks everyone.

Okay that's fair, sounds like a better path to go would be to make an entirely updated website.

Hahaha, you're right, I'll change the slang.

The link content is broken on purpose, and I think the About Me section is weak, but I don't consider this half-assed. Maybe I posted this prematurely, but I did want to get a sense of peoples opinions and advice. And I'm glad people are giving me honest advice. I'm getting the sense that it's simply not good enough, which I think is better to find out now from you guys other then a rejection letter from SpaceX.

Really appreciate the comments.

Okay awesome, thanks for the tips blockjack.

Perfect. Thanks for taking the time to go through the site.

I agree my About Me section kinda sucks. I was thinking I would use this space to incorporate sfretchling's suggestions.

It's too bad it comes off as cheesy, I was more hoping it would come off as showing that I dedicated the time and effort to put this together specifically for SpaceX.

The News to Me section is integrated into Pockets API, so updates whenever I add content to it, but I like the idea of writing my own blog post on the content. Sorry, which dates? I do have physics/space/engineering, just hasn't been an article worth saving recently, but I could control that under what I favorite so I'll be sure to tweak that.

Thanks for your opinion on how copying the website would come off. My intentions were simply to bring my resume to SpaceX in a familiar and customized-to-them manner, but understand that it might not come off that way.

It's also too bad that it seems like I'm trying to weasel anything. I'm certainly not desperate for a job, but am crazy interested in the things SpaceX is doing and it sounds like such a fun group to work with.

I do really appreciate your thoughtful comments. Regardless of how it works out, I've learned a lot and it's been a fun way to build my first web app.

I think that's a valid point. My plan was to upload a conventional CV, but have the opening line refer to the website. I'll work on the perfection part. Thanks for the tips.

Awesome. I'll try to better communicate why SpaceX is the company I want to work for. Specifying where I see myself working and adding value is a great idea, thanks sfrechtling.