Month: July 2015

In this post I’ll pretend that I am teaching a data science course on collecting, cleaning, storing, and updating data. Rather than pretending my students are computer scientists or software developers, I’ll pretend that they are business analysts or college grads going on to become business analysts. However, I’ll assume they know some programming (python), … [Read more…]

As I ventured into Lesson 4 in Udacity’s Data Wrangling with MongoDB, I really wanted to run the first script — inserting a record into the database — locally. I feel like I really damaged the sanctity of my files by installing, uninstalling, messing with permission, etc. for hours in all different locations in my … [Read more…]