Toronto is considered to be a safe city in comparison to other metropolises in the world. In an article in the Economist (2015), Toronto was ranked as the safest major city in North America and the eighth safest major city in the world. Not surprisingly,...
In a earlier blog post, I spoke about how each of us, despite our varied backgrounds, brings a unique and useful perspective to a data science team. As statisticians, computer scientists, software engineers, and/or hybrids, we utilize our individual strengths towards the common goal of...
Lately, I've been wondering how music has changed across decades. Specifically, what are the distinctive features that separate music of one decade from another? To this end, I have created a dataset of the top 100 music hits per decade, spanning six decades between 1950-2009....
The term ‘data science’ has become increasingly popular over the last few years, especially when coupled with its more famous cousin, ‘big data’. A simple keyword search on social media forums and job portals is sufficient to suggest that data science is here to stay...
If you’re a data scientist or an aspiring one, you may sometimes have had this question - is a more complex learning algorithm better for making predictions? Let’s assume we have a supervised learning task at hand that involves predicting the average selling price of houses...