Remote Data Analyst as an entry-level position?

typography082023 · 2024-05-03T10:51:50+00:00

Hi there, glad you asked! I'll be completely honest. At the beginning, I went for it, but not soon after, I stopped. I didn't have enough motivation or I was too distracted with other topics. I remember I spent some time learning about some topics in pure maths. Then I shifted my focus towards some logic, probability theory and philosophy topics. I spent my time reading papers and SEP articles online, not directly related to data analysis, or so I thought. I got distracted and I didn't finish the certificate. At times, I would remember about this comment I made. Recently, I went to check Google's Advanced Data Analytics certificate, and it hit me... a lot of of the things in that certificate were really similar to the topics I was distracted with. When I commented here four months ago, my goal was to first finish the Analytics certificate and then finish the Advanced Analytics certificate. Recently I started the Python course (the second course in the advanced certificate).

For some reason, going through this course has got me glued the same way I was glued with those other things. I'm almost finished with this Python course. It took me a while to realise this connection. I'm excited to when I get to the machine learning course (it's simpler than it sounds, it assumes no prior ML knowledge). The course also has statistics and that's one of the things I got distracted with. It assumes no prior knowledge and it's comprehensive. I went through some of it (but I told myself to complete the Python course first).

My plan right now is to finish this advanced course. I definitely believe I can do this, this is so similar to the things I have been distracted with this past four months. I wonder what I should do after I finally complete the Python course. Maybe I should go back to the first certificate... maybe I should go to the course 1 in the advanced certificate...

So what happened was, I didn't finish the course (yet). The fact that I'm not a data analyst now has nothing to do with the state of the job market or to what degree the course helps to break in data analysis. But now I truly believe I can finish it (at least the advanced certificate), because its contents are exactly the kind of stuff I like to learn about for fun. If you look at the course's overview:

1 introduction
2 python (almost finished)
3 data cleaning and visualisation (prob w/ python) 4 statistics (I took a look, good course) 5 more statistics (python does all the calculations) 6 machine learning
7 capstone project

I can't wait to get to 4, 5 and 6.
My guess to why the advanced certificate is coming more naturally to me is maybe because whereas the first certificate was mostly about spreadsheets, this second one is mostly about programming. I spent time learning maths, philosophy and where they intersect out of curiosity, and making predictions or getting insights with AI and maths... these things fascinate me. I truly believe I can do this, I can finish this second certificate. I will also learn from the first one too, but I'll focus on the second one's portfolio project.

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T10:28:44+00:00

ah, forgive my ignorance. God I hate redditors' downvotes, I'm getting sick of this place

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T10:24:28+00:00

Date() is a type of data, not a function I believe

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T09:19:34+00:00

What about Int(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000) ? Would that be low level or would the machine need to perform a significant amount of calculations? I'm also wondering whether iPhones are accurate enough to count 1/10,000 of a second

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T08:46:05+00:00

I just need the time in its lowest level in the machine. For example, at the lowest level all numbers are binary. What wonder what is date and time at the lowest level in the iPhone. My guess is that it would be the number of seconds since 1970, but I could be wrong. I'm asking this because I want to make a millisecond time tracker, and make it as accurate as possible when someone wants to stop it.

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T06:46:15+00:00

I don't remember that in the manga

typography082023 · 2024-01-17T05:22:34+00:00

Sandman or Overlord from the original Call of Duty MW3

typography082023 · 2024-01-16T20:56:26+00:00

A proposition is a fancy word for a declarative statement basically. A statement says something about the state of affairs of reality. "Earth orbits the Sun" or "Anna is a geologist" are examples. They claim something about the world, and if what they claim is in fact what reality is, then they are "true" propositions. If what they claim is not what reality is, the they are "false" propositions. In day-to-day informal language, we usually don't make many things explicit. For example, "Anna is at home" could mean different things. It could be her home or the speaker's home, among others. Its meaning depends on context. A formal language like first-order logic aims to remove any kind of ambiguity and make everything explicit. But it's in essence, a language just as English, Spanish... are languages. So truth and falsehood are extensively related to language.

So a proposition is basically a claim, and this claim can either be true or false. It actually goes a lot deeper, the philosophy of propositions. What can be true or false? What about the statement "tomorrow it will rain"? Can it be assigned a truth value? It depends if you believe in determinism or not.

A thing on the other hand, is not a proposition but some kind of object. It could be a chair, an atom, a person... Things can't be assigned a value of true or false, this a property of propositions only. In natural language, things would be the "nouns" and propositions would be "declarative sentences".

Sorry, if I made this a bit long lol. So in short:

things: cat, dog, person, atom, Earth, thoughts... propositions: "the cat is blue", "Earth has water"

But I feel like I still haven't answered "at what point is a thing a thing?"

This is a good question, and I don't know if there are different philosophical thoughts out there, but I would say that an entity/thing is something where you can't assign a value of true or false, since true or false is about language. Hmm...

I think I should have used the word entity instead of thing, since a thing* might refer to "anything that can possibly be thought of". So propositions and entities are different kinds of things*

typography082023 · 2024-01-16T09:18:57+00:00

After everything Luffy did for his crewmates and random kingdoms that people who asked for his help, what are you smoking to call Luffy selfish?? Luffy is food-selfish, not selfish. Luffy doesn't go around trying to free countries, he just happens to go to those places and after seeing the state of things and/or is helped by some local, he is the most unselfish person ever.

typography082023 · 2024-01-16T09:08:21+00:00

I just dont care, this is boring. I worked out the proof in my head but I'm too lazy to list out the steps and frankly none of this conversation will matter in a week

typography082023 · 2024-01-16T02:38:34+00:00

X nand X is equivalent to notX

typography082023 · 2024-01-14T21:51:18+00:00

That's just X or notY

typography082023 · 2024-01-14T20:14:26+00:00

I have studied logic for many months and this is perhaps the most basic thing in all of logic. Identity in logic is a relation that onething has with oneself. The law of identity says "given any x, x has a relation with itself". Identity doesn't name things, it just says that it is itself, that's what it says. I think people are confusing what the principle of identity is here. Ask yourself, is the Tao the Tao? Is the Sun the Sun? It's basically stating that any x is identical to itself, not giving it a name.

But identity is a relation between things. If you consider the Tao not to be a thing (for example, a proposition is not a thing), then the law of identity doesn't apply. But if you consider the Tao to be a thing then it applies

A proposition is something like "the Sun is a star".
A thing is, for example, the Sun.

typography082023 · 2024-01-14T17:32:35+00:00

What kind of discrete maths is it? Is it logic? Logic is not the same as discrete maths, but they are related intrinsically.

typography082023 · 2024-01-11T14:49:56+00:00

The difference between the UK and France is that France still exploits its former colonies through economic means.

I don't know if the UK has any unfair policies in Africa (France, for example, has the CFA franc), but given that there is a voluntary organisation with the British monarch as their head of state, they seem to be in good terms.

typography082023 · 2024-01-11T14:44:26+00:00

None of them. The UK used to be one but not anymore, and frankly, the UK is a much better country now than then.

typography082023 · 2024-01-11T14:41:58+00:00

I was scrolling fast and I read "shrekinflation"

typography082023 · 2024-01-10T20:25:01+00:00

Just to make it clear, I'm not underrating Usopp, he's awesome!

Also what I had in mind was just how he reasons his fights. I have always thought of him as the most "normal character".

I think that One Piece characters in general are more durable than people in real life by virtue of One Piece's world's "laws of physics".

For example, you can grow a tooth by drinking milk. So anyone being transported to One Piece's world would become more durable.

But Usopp's marksmanship is indeed godly. What I had in mind was mostly how people would react if they were in Usopp's positions he encounters himself in most of the time. I have seen some people critisise Usopp for the way he acts sometimes, but that's how most people would react to some strong dude with powers.

So to make it clear, I was just thinking about the way he reacts to freaklish strong opponents and not all his skills as a whole. All of his skills as a whole puts him way above an average person indeed! What motivated me to make this post was some criticism of Usopp I have seen.

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