Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Using A/B Testing to Assess Proposed Change

“If you never try, you’ll never know.” The Situation The developer of a phone-based game is concerned about the retention rate of customers who download the game after they saw this graphic in a company presentation. The developer was especially concerned about the customers that churned after the first day. This indicated that they wereContinue reading “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Using A/B Testing to Assess Proposed Change”

A Love Letter to Functions

“Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.”  – Chris Pine It wasn’t love at first sight. When I was first introduced to functions, they seemed perfectly fine, but a little bland. Sort of like that person that your grandmother would be happy for you to bring home – steady, predictableContinue reading “A Love Letter to Functions”

Do Cloudy Countries Produce More Heavy Metal Music?

Practice With Web Scraping and Data Manipulation Using Python, Pandas and BeautifulSoup “Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.” — Danielle LaPorte It’s been raining quite a bit in Atlanta these past few weeks and I’ve noticed that as the skies become more overcast, my playlist veers heavier and heavier. Which led me to wonder –Continue reading “Do Cloudy Countries Produce More Heavy Metal Music?”

Breaking Down a Python Coding Challenge

Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are.  Practice only makes for improvement.  – Les Brown One of the more important skills with coding is understanding how to break down a problem into smaller chunks. Especially when you’re first beginning, it’s easy to immediately start typing lines of code beforeContinue reading “Breaking Down a Python Coding Challenge”

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