Tinashe the Data Scientist - Legacy Posts

Here you can find archived older posts from my old website.

Automated CV/Resume with R, CircleCI, & Google Sheets

continuous integration

A couple of years ago I was in a corporate tool limbo as I’d just left Drexel University, so my license with Microsoft Word had expired. In addition to having the most difficult time collaborating with MSW users on a paper, I also didn’t have a way to efficiently edit the resumes and CVs I’d developed. I tried opening files in Libre Office, which is a great freeware option for the office suite of tools, but frankly didn’t give seamless transition between features in MS.

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Data Tip: Assignment with the ’T’ Pipe

So today, I found myself in an interesting situation wherein I was writing out an R object to disk, but needed to keep the file’s name and path in session so I could do something with it later. Typically, doing that would look like this:

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Data Tip: Processing Checkbox-Factors

The other day I was tasked with processing some data that had been generated from a survey that included checkboxes. You know, the “tick all that apply”, kind of questions. Nothing against this style of response, it can be quite effective for collecting unbiased data. However, platforms such as Qualtrics annoyingly make it such that checkbox responses are output as singular concatenated strings per response!

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Remembering Mike Tapera Through Data Science & rtweet

machine learning

My father Michael Tapera passed away from a brain tumour in 2016; although he will be sorely missed, it’s fortunate that my father was famous for his written and spoken word. He was an excellent writer and orator in just about every way, and a few days ago my mom suggested to our family to check his Twitter page for the 30 or so tweets he posted in his latter years (his diagnosis was received in 2013, and so all of these tweets were during his ailment).
Of course, being the data scientist I am, simply reading the tweets would not suffice: I decided to do some text mining on my dad’s Twitter profile to find out what his online presence was like in his latter days.

Tinashe M. Tapera