Joshua
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A Shared Passion
Basketball has always been a huge part of me. My journey with the game began when I was just 9 years old. Growing up right across from the basketball gym, a common setup in our province, I picked up the sport quickly. It became our favorite pastime. I vividly recall the year I turned 10,…
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God is My Refuge and My Fortress
It has been six months since I have predominantly been away from home. Although I mentioned in my previous post that I’m fortunate enough to visit twice a month, there isn’t a day that goes by without missing my wife and kids. The first few weeks were particularly tough. I’ve always been very close to…
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My Silent Grind
In the past five months, I have embarked on an AI graduate program, dedicating an average of five hours daily to my studies. This has been my quiet pursuit, a journey marked by perseverance and solitude. The distance of over 500 miles from home leaves me yearning for my family each day, though I am…
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God’s Blessings
Happy birthday to my beloved wife! I love you ma. The photos reflect our journey: the first from September 2010 before we were married, the middle one from our wedding in April 2013, and the most recent with our beautiful children. My wife and kids are divine blessings, and I constantly pray for their good…
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Refocus
This is my final project in Refocus, an online educational platform. Using hypothetical data, the goal of the company in this project is to expand and grow the health tracker smartwatch business to a new location. Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Python were utilized to make a comprehensive data analysis. Data was cleaned and transformed,…
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Tableau
Credits to Kirill Eremenko and SuperDataScience Team Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool used for converting raw data into an understandable format. It helps users to create a wide variety of interactive and shareable dashboards. These visualizations can represent trends, variations, and insights through charts, graphs, and other graphics. Tableau is widely used in…
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Power BI
Credits to Maven Analytics AdventureWorks (fictional) is a global manufacturing company that produces cycling equipment and accessories. The management team needs a way to track KPIs (sales, revenue, profit, returns), compare regional performance, analyze product-level trends, and identify high-value customers. The objective is to connect and transform the raw data, build a relational model, create…
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It’s About the Fundamentals
I believe aspiring data analysts should not lose sight of the fundamental principles of mathematics and statistics. While advanced visualization tools in data science are abundant, their use is secondary to the ability to perform a thorough analysis grounded in these core concepts. Without this foundation, the value of the output may be diminished or…
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St. Thomas Aquinas
Today, January 28, 2025, marks the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas. Whenever I have no classes, I attend mass, as being in the church brings me immense peace and strength to navigate life’s challenges. The priest’s homily today focused on St. Thomas Aquinas’ profound intellect and unwavering faith. He stressed that Aquinas’ dedication to…
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Predicting Heart Attack Risk
This study compares the performance of three models—Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, and Artificial Neural Network—on predicting heart attack risk. The Artificial Neural Network outperformed in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-Score, making it the best model. Logistic Regression was strong in interpretability and simplicity.