Welcome - Sneezing Trees

If I’m into anything, it’s coding. More specifically, I love digging into data science / machine learning and WordPress web development. So inevitably most of this blog is about those things…

Data Science

I love the idea of Artificial Intelligence, so I dived in a while ago and started teaching myself. You can see a few of my projects here. And now I’m in full time training. So before long the world will have yet another data analyst…

WordPress

I built my first WordPress site years ago when I wanted a site for my local camera club. That’s when I fell in love with coding generally, and I haven’t stopped since then. You can see some of my sites here.

Latest Posts

Economic strength and education system performance – is there a link?

On: May 12, 2022

In: Tech

In giving myself an exercise to practice 💪 Pandas and Matplotlib, I ended up looking into this question by comparing GDP per capita with UN Sustainable Development goal indicators of educational proficiency. Here’s the result, and more importantly (at least for me) the process I went through, including one or two mistakes… 🙄

Optimising a Data Science CV

On: March 12, 2022

In: Tech

The job of a data scientist / analyst is to present data in a way that is as a minimum both useful and accessible. Probably engaging too, though some might see that as a slightly lower priority.

Now, a CV presents data 📊 – so as someone in data science your CV had better meet those requirements. Does that mean it’s different from the A4 1-pagers I usually see? I think so, in small but important ways.

Set-up for cPanel Git Version Control and Deployment

On: October 24, 2021

In: Tech

Thanks to limited documentation, I found setting myself up to use cPanel and Git to deploy to my shared linux hosting plan pretty damn tricky. So with the hope of saving someone else some time I’ll share how I got there in the end.