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5 insights from learning and practicing Qualitative Inquiry methods

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Word Up, NFL!

A Word Cloud application to represent the most mentioned NFL players each week from a major sports site. Uses spaCy and Anthropic's Claude 2.1 for generative text.

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Lions Helmet and Football

NFL IR...IRL

I collect NFL player data across several seasons to find out whether there are potential correlations for a player landing on the Injured Reserve

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Welcome!

This site is a statement of my passion and awe for Data Science. Please check out my Project Landing page to see the fun things I've worked on. My aim for this site is not only talk about my work but allow visitors to experience it as well. I make heavy use of web-based frameworks and libraries to bring my ds work to life.

Its name is a play on standard deviation which is a statistical measure to determine how spread out data is from the mean/average in a dataset. Symbolically, it represents diversity, originality and a move away from convention. Being standardly deviated, means being outside the norm.

The Greek symbol σ (sigma) is used to represent standard deviation in statistics. It's also comparable to the English 's'. You'll see it substituted for the 's' in the site's title.