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Applied Data Science Capstone Project - Coursera - Week 5 Blog Post

 Segmenting and Clustering Neighborhoods in Fredericton, NB  Applied Data Science Capstone Week 5 Peer-Graded Project  Report By Adith Sreeram A S May 29, 2021 Introduction to the opportunity Fredericton is the Capital City of the only Canadian fully-bilingual Province of New Brunswick and is beautifully located on the banks of the Saint John River. While one of the least populated provincial capital cities with a population base of fewer than 60 thousand residents, it offers a wide spectrum of venues and is a government, university, and cultural hub. As the city grows and develops, it becomes increasingly important to examine and understand it quantitatively. The City of Fredericton provides open data for everyone and encourages entrepreneurial use to develop services for the benefit of its citizens. Developers, investors, policymakers, and/or city planners have an interest in answering the following questions as the need for additional services and citizen protection: 1...

10 Must have skills to become a Data Scientist.

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  Data science is tough to break in. This multi-disciplinary field is mostly based on math, stats and programming. To be a successful data scientist you must have these 10 skills which will take you to the next level as a data scientist. Okay, ready to start?  Here we go. 1. Statistics “Statistics is the grammar of data science.” When you start writing a sentence you must be clear   about the grammar concepts to build your sentences in the similar way  statistics  is an essential concept for you to understand to build your high-quality models. The main advantage of statistics is that the information is presented in a organized way which will help us a lot. Here are some basic concepts in statistics for becoming a Data Scientist! Types of Analytics Probability Variability Probability distribution Regression Modeling 2. Calculus Most machine learning models are built with several unknown variables. A knowledge of  Calculus  is significant for building a ...