Few words about me
My name is Alex, I live in Montreal and I’m passionnate about DataScience topics and Mobile app developpement. This blog aims to present some of my projects and talk about what I have learned during my exploration of the world of data science.
I work in Finance as a Business Analyst BI, I manage marketdata acquisition and transformation for OTC pricing.
I’m not a native English speaker so it will also help me practice my English writing skill :)
DataScience
I first started with courses on udacity and pluralsight on machine learning topics. It was just to understand the basic concepts and what can we do with them.
I was really surprise by the concepts and wanted to know more about them so I decided to take it further. The first new course was the DataScientist track on DataCamp. It was really good to practice some python and discover all the main library like :
| Library | Url |
|---|---|
| Pandas | https://pandas.pydata.org/ |
| matplotlib | https://matplotlib.org/ |
| Bokeh | https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/ |
| Scikit-Learn | https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ |
| SciPy | https://www.scipy.org/ |
| Keras | https://keras.io/ |
| spaCy | https://spacy.io/ |
It gave me the motivation to push on these topics.
Then I took Andrew N.G incredible course on coursera. It’s a really good one, it helped me tackle the theory behind all these.
After that, all I wanted to do was experiment. That’s when I started Jeremy Howard Fast.ai courses on Deep Learning and it was an absolute blast.
There are 2 parts for the deep learning course and for the moment, I haven’t started the second part yet.
Fast.ai is based on pytorch but I try to practice with Tensorflow also.
You can see it as a couple of Low level API + High level API :
| Library | Low Level API | |
|---|---|---|
| Tensorflow + Keras | https://www.tensorflow.org/ | https://keras.io/ |
| PyTorch + Fastai | https://pytorch.org/ | https://docs.fast.ai/ |
This blog will help me to practice some of the concepts explained during the course and make sure I have understood them correctly. I find the process of writing about something really useful, it makes me question things more and it force me to try things!
Let’s give it a try!