I’ve been on a mad rush to cover as much Dataquest ground as I can before the holiday-slash-Grand-O’-Family-visit week arrives, and there’s so much to cover.
Starting this issue, I’ve made an executive decision to include obsessions that are not necessarily related to programming or data science, because let’s face it, everything can be connected to either in one way or another. Besides, these obsessions might present themselves as sources of inspiration in the future. You never know.
- I’m a year late, but heard Adam Lambert’s Believe for the first time, and I believed. His choice of slowing the song down, stripping away the techno bits, and just exposing the RAW! emotion was a perfect way to honor Cher. Speaking of AI alumni, Jennifer Hudson’s Memory is probably the most beautiful rendition I’ve ever heard. She’s perfected this softer / head-y tone, which contrasts well to her belt-ier bits.
- Professing that it has helped her organize her life, a friend recently recommended Bullet Journal. It felt serendipitous; I felt an instant connection when Ryder Carroll started talking about skimming one’s life and intentionally, since I’ve been on a similar journey of streamlining.
- The shell intimidated me. The stripped-down UI made me feel like I didn’t know what I was doing, or that my laptop would explode with the wrong dot command. I feel a bit more comfortable now, having a bit of practice with psql and sqlite3, though additional non-DQ (immersive) courses seem necessary. I want to be a command line ninja.
- kennethreitz’s Principle of Polarity resonates with my growing belief that the trick in life is to understand extremes, and find footing within that spectrum.
- Anything that marries Python and web excites me. The requests Python library makes me giddy like a kid. It gets me a step closer to actualizing a few web scraping projects I’ve been conceptualizing.