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When researching boot camps online, there always seem to be a lot of mixed opinions. There are a lot of them out there, some more expensive than others, and they all have slightly different focuses while claiming they can churn out analysts, full stack devs, and/or data scientists in as little as 12 weeks. In … Continue reading Enter Analytics: From Boot Camp to working in Data Science

I've been writing articles on Medium. Check them out! Exploring Beef Jerky Data using Python https://medium.com/@erickleppen01/exploring-beef-jerky-data-using-python-115054741608 My Trick to learning List Comprehensions in Python https://towardsdatascience.com/my-trick-to-learning-list-comprehensions-in-python-8a54e66d98b Pivoting your Data using Python, SQL or spreadsheets https://towardsdatascience.com/pivoting-your-data-using-python-sql-or-spreadsheets-62736ba23921 Analyzing Wine Descriptions using the Natural Language Tool Kit https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-wine-descriptions-using-the-natural-language-toolkit-in-python-497ac1e228d5 Web Scraping board game descriptions with Python https://towardsdatascience.com/web-scraping-board-game-descriptions-with-python-7b8f6a5be1f3 Affordable options for … Continue reading Medium Articles

Life is going great! I'm getting married in nine days, I'll be starting a new career in three weeks, I'm planning my next coding project, and studying hard to keep some of the skills I learned in the Data Analytics boot camp I completed a couple months ago. I have a lot of big changes … Continue reading Big Changes

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has fascinated me since I first read about the Turing testwhile studying rhetorical theory and technical communication in college. The complexities and subtleties of our communication always seemed like such a defining factor in what makes us a distinct and intelligent species, so training a machine to understand language transforms communication from … Continue reading Generating Wine Recommendations using the Universal Sentence Encoder

After six months of sacrifice and hard-work, I am proud to say I have completed the data visualization and analytics boot camp I was attending at the University of Minnesota. For my final project, I wanted to push myself and try to figure out whether or not I got my money's worth. In the end, … Continue reading The Final Project

I spent the day at a data science event held by the Minneanalytics community. I summoned my inner sponge and absorbed as much information as possible. The event was called Data Tech 2019! I listened to a few talks on machine learning, creating data lakes, and natural language processing. I took these themes away from … Continue reading My Brief Data Tech 2019 Recap

Although most of it has been easy, I've faced turmoil and adversity in many ways and times throughout my life. Becoming successful takes a lot of energy. Even if the rewards for doing so are unknown and beyond sight, I must look deep within myself and find the strength to accomplish what might look easy … Continue reading Finding Strength