Dale Wahl - Data Scientist

Projects

Here are some highlights of my recent work.

Android App: Pocket Decks

Developed Android application in Java

Iowa Liquor Sales

Using open data for market research

Reddit

How to break onto the front page of the internet

West Nile Virus

Predicting outbreaks in Chicago

Twitter Engagement

Retweets and Favorites on Conde Nast Brands

Tesla Stock Prediction

Combining Time Series Modeling with NLP

Articles

Better decisions through data.

Web Scraping: Getting started with Selenium in Python

Publisher: codeburst.io

Start your webscraping career with Selenium. It mimics how a human interacts with a browser so is great of testing and more. Learn to navigate, click links, and fill in text boxes as well as save information to your computer in order to collect data.
Python 101: Common Ways to Work with Text

Blog Post

I am going to go over a few nifty functions and methods that will help you get rid of characters you don’t want, fix capitalization issues, replace characters, and take strings apart and put them back together again.
Market Research: Where to Open a New Liquor Store in Iowa

Publisher: Toward Data Science

After finishing a project to identify potential locations to open a new liquor store in Iowa, I decided to do a walk through of the actual process to build a linear regression model in Python. This blog goes through the model, cross-validation, using Lasso regularization to pick the best working features, and finally testing.
Machine Learning: Support Vector Machines

Publisher: Toward Data Science

I gave an introductory talk on the machine learning method known as Support Vector Machines. This entry for Toward Data Science explains the basics behind how they are used to classify data for various applications.
Amazon Web Services and Python 3 combined!

Publisher: codeburst.io

This short and sweet article for codeburst.io goes over how to install Python 3 and any libraries you need for a project using Amazon's cloud: AWS.

Dale Wahl

In vino, veritas.

Data Scientist

Hook, line, and sinker

Si hoc legere tibi, tunc enim in commune habet multum.