PinnedMember-onlyMy All-Time Top ArticlesAn Archive — I Worked Through 500+ Data Science Interview Questions The Life of a Data Analyst Writing on Medium Got Me a Job in Data Analytics Machine Learning Models Explained to a Five-Year-Old Web Scraping a Javascript Heavy Website in Python Data Science Concepts Explained to a Five-Year-Old A Guide to EDA…Data Science1 min readData Science1 min read
Mar 10Member-onlyHow To Be a Good Data Analyst Without Good DataMusings on data quality — “This is wrong.” — key stakeholder I dreaded hearing that phrase (and variations of it) when showing dashboards to project stakeholders. I would have a lot of anxiety around data analytics projects in the beginning because I didn’t want to fail. …Data5 min readData5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Dec 23, 2022Member-onlyHow Do You Know if Your Classification Model Is Any Good?Guidance for determining whether your model is successful in the context of your goals — If you are new to machine learning and you developed a classification model, then congrats! You might be thinking, “now what?” That’s a great question. With auto ML technology, model creation is more accessible than ever. The difficulty lies in determining if that model is any good. In this article…Data Science7 min readData Science7 min read
Oct 31, 2022Member-onlyWhen Do You Need a Machine Learning Model?Explanations, Alteryx use cases, and more — Machine Learning (ML) just sounds cool-doesn’t it? Maybe it’s because I’m a nerd, or maybe it is cool. Regardless, you’re probably used to hearing buzz around this topic. (Or at least seeing TV and movies that play with the concepts.) If you are not from a data science…Data Science6 min readData Science6 min read
Sep 8, 2022Member-onlyMy Journey in Data AnalyticsFrom Engineering Student to Consultant to Data Analyst to Data Journalist — Hello! If you are new to following my blog, let me introduce myself: my name is Megan Dibble, and I am a Data Journalist at Alteryx. Data Journalist? That’s a title? That was my first thought when I interviewed for the position. I would never have imagined being in a…Data Analytics6 min readData Analytics6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Aug 30, 2022Member-only6 Data Fallacies To Watch Out ForKnowing these common logic traps will help you avoid making mistakes in your analysis — In a recent article, I defined data literacy by starting with the general definition of literacy and adapting it to the data world: What Is Data Literacy? …and why is it important?towardsdatascience.com This article follows a similar thread — it was inspired by the logical fallacies I learned in high school. If there are logical errors you can make…Data Analytics7 min readData Analytics7 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jul 19, 2022Member-onlyData Science & Pop MusicDetermining Song Sentiment with Text Mining — Do you ever feel “happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time?” Well, Taylor Swift does. (Or she did, at 22.) There’s a lot of emotion in this song-some positive, some negative, and some neutral. And this got me thinking: can I determine the overall mood of her…Data Science8 min readData Science8 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jun 23, 2022Member-onlyHow I Became a Data Journalist& what I’ve learned in my career in data thus far — For the last month, when people have asked me what I do for work, I’ve said, “I guess I’m like… a journalist now?” I don’t know the right way to say it because it doesn't fit with my college degree, and I don’t see myself as a professional writer (yet). …Data Science5 min readData Science5 min read
Jun 13, 2022Machine Learning for the Data AnalystHow Alteryx is making ML easy, automated, and accessible — In the last ten years, “machine learning” (ML) has increased in popularity as a search term on Google. The chart below illustrates the interest relative to peak interest. Since around 2018, the data shows that people worldwide want to know more about machine learning. But… isn’t machine learning for data…Alteryx5 min readAlteryx5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 24, 2022Member-onlyA Practical Step for Improving Data LiteracyLet’s make data science writing more readable — I recently learned about a metric for evaluating the readability of writing: the Flesch Reading Ease score. It was developed back in the 1940s, but it is new to me. …Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
