PinnedMy Blog PostsUpdated on August 3, 2022 — Hello! Welcome to my Medium blog. Here I organized my blog posts into categories. Feel free to connect with me via Email (sophiayang.ds@gmail.com), Twitter, Linkedin, and YouTube :) Career: What Do Data Scientists Do? Don’t Make Data Scientists Do Scrum Networking in Tech: Find Your Dream Data Science Job 5 Ways…2 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Aug 4Member-onlyWhat Do You Do When Git Goes Wrong?How to safely revert latest commit — Have you been in a situation when your git went horribly wrong and you need to revert desperately? I find myself in this situation once in a while and people seem to run into the same issues as well. Many new Git users may feel hopeless when they first encounter…Git4 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jun 10Member-onlyPython Dashboarding Ecosystem and LandscapePlotly Dash, Panel, Voila, and Streamlit — Are you a data scientist or a data analyst who likes to get insights from data through visualizations and dashboards? Are you a Python user and confused about which Python library you should use? Python offers many amazing tools for visualizing data and building dashboards. It can be very confusing. …Python5 min read
May 21Member-onlyJohnny Depp v Amber Heard Twitter Sentiment AnalysisWho is watching Johnny Deep vs. Amber Heard Defamation Trial? Yesterday in court, Ron Schnell, the director at Berkley Research Group, testified about the negative hashtags and tweets toward Amber Heard. So, that makes me wonder, why don’t I just try to do some simple text analysis on tweets…Johnny Depp5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 1Member-onlyPyScript: Python in the browserAre you a data scientist or a developer who mostly uses Python? Are you jealous of developers who write Javascript code and build fancy websites in a browser? How nice would it be if we can write websites in Python? Amazingly, at PyCon US 2022, Anaconda’s CEO Peter Wang announced…Pyscript4 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Apr 11Member-onlyBuilding a Panel Dashboard with Snowpark for PythonSnowflake for data scientists — Data scientists often use SQL to interact with a data warehouse, but then often rely on Python for data discovery, visualization, and modeling. How great would it be if we can interact with a data warehouse directly with our preferred tools in Python? Snowflake now natively supports Python with Snowpark…Data Science5 min read
Mar 25What I learned from a data science conference?Data Council 2022 — I attended the data science/data engineering conference Data Council 2022 this week. This is my first time attending this conference. One thing special about this conference is that there are a lot of startups and investors. There are several interesting themes we noticed: There are many interesting problems and issues…Data Science9 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 22Member-onlyMulti-Armed Bandit Algorithms: Thompson SamplingIntuition, Bayes, and an example — Imagine that there is a row of slot machines in front of you. You do not know which machine will give you the best chance to win. How can you find the best slot machine to play with? What should you do to have a higher chance of winning…Data Science6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 15Member-onlyHow to create a reproducible data science projectA beginner’s guide to Anaconda Project — By Sophia Yang and Albert DeFusco It is important to create reproducible data science projects. Data scientists need to be able to share projects with others and to make sure others can produce the same results. In our view, there are three areas reproducible data science centers on — reproducible…Data Science3 min read
Mar 14Member-only5 Ways Women In Technology Can Continue to Advance in the FieldIn celebration of International Women’s Month, I wanted to share my thoughts on being a female data scientist in the tech sphere. I have been in tech for four years, and I am currently a Senior Data Scientist at Anaconda. With this year’s International Women’s Day theme being #BreakTheBias, I…Women In Tech6 min read