Day 26: July 6th, 2018
Today's Progress: 10th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science and text analysis.
Thoughts: This takes longer than I anticipated.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 25: July 5th, 2018
Today's Progress: 9th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science and text analysis. Currently trying to make a JSON request to one of Microsoft's cognitive services work.
Thoughts: I got this.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 24: July 4th, 2018
Today's Progress: 8th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science and text analysis.
Thoughts: Slow and steady wins the race.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 23: July 2nd, 2018
Today's Progress: Relaxing evening trying to create a typography by playing around with vector graphics, Inkscape and a quote from Alan Watts.
Thoughts: Kindly let me help you, said the monkey.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 22: June 29th, 2018
Today's Progress: Relaxing morning updating CSS and HTML of my personal website http://www.peterstieg.com/
Thoughts: Relax.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 21: June 28th, 2018
Today's Progress: 6th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science and text analysis, e.g. Python, Porter Stemmer and iterables.
Thoughts: Resiliency.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 20: June 27th, 2018
Today's Progress: 5th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science and text analysis, e.g. Python, TextBlob, dictionaries, enumerate and lambda functions.
Thoughts: One line of code. Five elements to research.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 19: June 26th, 2018
Today's Progress: 4th day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science, e.g. Python, PyPlot, Pandas, NLTK and MatPlotLib
Thoughts: Slow and steady wins the race.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 18: June 25th, 2018
Today's Progress: 3rd day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science, e.g. Python, Seaborn and cURL
Thoughts: Repetitive research.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 17: June 22nd, 2018
Today's Progress: 2nd day of studying and commenting Python scripts for data science, e.g. 1, Python: Client library for Microsoft Azure machine Learning 2, Boxplots with NumPy and matplotLib
Thoughts: Patience pays off.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 16: June 21st, 2018
Today's Progress: 1st day of studying and commenting Python scripts for Datascience, e.g. 1, Python: Datasets vs DataFrames, 2, Seaborn: set_style, FacetGrid, distplot
Thoughts: To imitate is to limitate.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 15: June 20th, 2018
Today's Progress: Partly revised a Python script on Text and Speech analysis in Jupyter Notebook as I decided to study every single line of code used over the past weeks during Microsoft's online course on Artificial Intelligence on edX.
Thoughts: Every single line of code.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 14: June 19th, 2018
Today's Progress: Received the edX certification after Completing the edX course DAT263x: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Thoughts: One step closer.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 13: June 18th, 2018
Today's Progress: Artificial Intelligence: 1, Passed Lab3 of the edX course dat263x on the Microsoft's Bot Framework and Cortana. 2, Introduction to Azure's Data Science Virtual Machine and Cognitive Toolkit
Thoughts: Orderliness is next to Godliness.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 12: June 13th, 2018
Today's Progress: Reading "Designing Voice User Interfaces" by Cathy Pearl while traveling from Leipzig to Rome and dealing with cancelled Lufthansa flights.
Thoughts: Rolling stone.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 11: June 12th, 2018
Today's Progress: Artificial Intelligence: 1, Bots: Created QnA Bot with Knowledge base on Microsoft's QnA Maker 2, Cortana: Deployed a web chat bot as skill for Microsoft's voice assistant.
Thoughts: Orderliness is next to Godliness.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 10: June 11th, 2018
Today's Progress: Artificial Intelligence: 1, Passed Lab3 of the edX course dat263x on Computer Vision. 2, Started with bots and their deployment on Azure, basic creation, channels, intelligence and QnAs. 3, Read Kyle Simpson's and Quincy Larson's thoughts on self-learning.
Thoughts: Irony. And. Doubt.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 9: June 8th, 2018
Today's Progress: 1, Artificial Intelligence: Video Basics with Python AV, Microsoft Video Indexer and its API. 2, Python: Compared Conda with PIP thanks to Jake VanderPlas blog post on GitHub.
Thoughts: .
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 8: June 7th, 2018
Today's Progress: Continued with Microsofts course on Artificial Intelligence with the CustomVision AI and Image Classification, ComputerVision API for Image Analysis and Face API for face recognition.
Since the Python scripts of the course contain errors I am going to rewrite them from scratch.
Thoughts: Errors. Again.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Day 7: June 6th, 2018
Today's Progress: Early morning coding sessions with Python for Artificial Intelligence: Image Processing, Equalizatio with Gaussian and Median Filters, Sobel Edge Detection and Harris Corner Detection with SciKit-Image library.
Thoughts: Tired.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Passed Lab2 of the edX course dat263x and ran into AttributeError, NameError, ImportError, TypeError and ValueError in Python scripts as all good things come in fives, right?
Thoughts: Errors.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Started the week with Microsoft's edX course on Artificial Intelligence and a module on LUIS: Microsoft's Language Understanding Intelligence Service, its Intents and Entities. Easy progress with the platform and its functionalities thanks to 3 seminars on Alexa.
Thoughts: A new week. A new start. Same ol'. Same ol'.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Another evening coding session spent with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Bing Speech Recognition as well as the Python library SpeechRecognition and the ElementTree method.
Thoughts: Focus. And Research. And Repetition. And over again.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Spent the evening on Artificial Intelligence, Python, Lambda functions, feature hashing and libraries for data science like TextBlob tb, Natural Language Toolkit nltk and PorterStemmer. Thanks to David Dimitrov.
Thoughts: Focus. And Research. And Repetition.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Got up at 4:04 to research Python and 1, understand libraries for Data science like Matplotlib PyPlot plt, NumPy np, Pandas pd and Seaborn sns 2, identify use cases for NLTK corpora apart from Stopwords 3, revise NLP concepts like Word Frequency WF, Term Frequency TF and Inverse Document Frequency IDF.
Thoughts: Focus. And Research.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Artificial Intelligence: Focused all morning on time-consuming research on 1, Python and shall assignment with Bang and Magics 2, Pandas' DataFrames 3, MatPlotLib' figures
Thoughts: Focus. And Research.
Link to work: Personal Webpage
Today's Progress: Artificial Intelligence 1, Python: Read about the built-in String class, FOR and IN constructs as well as the need to import pandas as pd because the built-in methods that overlap with pandas methods. 2, NLTK: Read about tokenization. 3, cURL: Read the manual.
Thoughts: Focus.
Link to work: Personal Webpage