Khyatee Desai – Medium

Nov 23, 2020

Predicting Chess Matches with PySpark

With chess on my mind thanks to Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, this week I used PySpark to build a multi-label classifier to predict chess match outcomes from the Chess Game Dataset. Setup The process of configuring your local environment to use Apache Spark is arguably the most arduous part of this…

Pyspark

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Pyspark

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Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Nov 9, 2020

Data Science in the Age of Cloud Computing

Thoughts and opinions shared in this post are my own, and are unaffiliated with Amazon Web Services. My first job out of university was as a Solutions Architect for a cloud computing platform. Solutions Architecture is at the crossroad of business, technology, and communication. …

AWS

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Data Science in the Age of Cloud Computing

AWS

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Published in The Startup

·Oct 27, 2020

Average Jeans Color by State, 2020

Want to help me improve the map? Fill out the 3-question survey here! This month I bought the first pair of blue jeans I’ve owned in a decade. …

Maps

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Maps

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Oct 13, 2020

The Pseudoscience of Incarceration — Where is the Data?

The prison is a facet of society that is taken, unquestionably, for granted. Most people cannot fathom a world in which the prison does not exist, yet to most, it is nothing more than an abstract concept that exists “over there.” In truth, justification for the existence of the Prison…

Abolition

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The Pseudoscience of Incarceration — Where is the Data?

Abolition

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