Analyzing the Vegan conversation on Twitter using NLP and Topic Modeling — Intro 📄 This blog post corresponds to my third individual project at Metis. The project itself is an exploration of text data by the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and unsupervised learning. My specific project used Tweets with keyword “vegan” from 2016–2020 to understand the vegan conversation over the…

Experimenting with various classifier models and a deeper dive into XG Boost — Intro: As a student of the Metis Data Science Bootcamp, I chose to explore fraudulent card transactions for my second individual project. This project had three requirements: query data from a postgreSQL database with SQL, develop a classification model, and create an interactive visualization. I found the postgreSQL and interactive…

My name is Joe Cowell and I recently enrolled in the Metis Data Science Bootcamp. The 12-week immersive program will turn me from ‘data novice’ into a full-fledged data scientist. I mean, the title of this post includes ‘Supervised Machine Learning’ and I’ve only been in the program for three…