After completing my AWS Solution Architect certification, I decided to put AWS to use and create a function that would send daily SMS updates of new COVID case counts in my area (BC, Alberta, and Canada wide). An AWS serverless Lambda function seemed to be a good match, as the function only needed to run […]
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Sometimes the ‘factual’ data you are given is just bad. A project to categorize World Health documents using AI doesn’t yield expected results, and a deep dive into the data shows that the training document categorizations were often inaccurate. In several cases, documents classified under ‘water’ had zero keywords of ‘water’, ‘liquid’, ‘thirst’, or ‘drought’.
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Courses completed between January 2020 and March 2020. What is Data Science?: The course covered what Data Science is and What Data Scientists Do, and Data Science Topics, and Data Science Business. The course discussed what tools and algorithms data scientists use on a daily basis and what skills are required to be a data
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Eric Kuck, AI and Data Science Architect March 16, 2020 This month, I am finishing my IBM Data Science series on Coursera, and had to do a final project called a capstone that showcases the skills taught throughout the course series. I’ll share a bit of what I submitted, but more importantly, let’s see how
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The Battle of the Cities – Great Vancouver, Canada Introduction: Business Problem In this project, we will try to find an optimal location for a Korean restaurant in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vancouver has located on the west coast of Canada and has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,400 people per square kilometre
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