Announcing the Community Champions for this week!

[masterryan.prof]

You too @carologira8! Happy learning!

[nityesh]

Please join me in congratulating our Community Champions for this week:

Writers:

One of our Learning Assistants - @masterryan.prof - wrote an article to explain the complicated file permissions on the Bash CLI. Check it out in our magazine, Dataquest Direct:

Understanding the complicated file permissions on the Bash CLI (Linux, Mac OS X and WSL)

[sai-kiran-anagani-Tjbk79TARiE-unsplash] I have recently received quite a few questions about Command Line Permissions. In this article, I will be addressing how we can go about dealing with permissions on terminals using the Bash scripting language. Note that I will not be doing a deep dive into Bash scripting or the filesystem so please check out the links at the bottom of the article for more info. Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) are variants based on the Unix archite…

Noteable Guided Project sharers:

• @pudgiko shared a Guided Project on Finding best Market to advertise in. This project is easy to understand and follow. Apart from that, it also has some cool plots. Do check it out!

• @shas shared an amazing Guided Project: Profitable App Profiles for the App Store and Google Play Markets. What’s most exciting about this project is that learners are already building up on Shas’s work to create their own versions. It is amazingly detailed, thoroughly explained and simply a valuable read.

Noteable Guided Project reviewers:

@juanjosemunozp and @info.victoromondi are helping their peers by giving them really pointed and constructive feedback on their Guided Projects. Thank you for being so thoughtful!

Most liked:

• @gabriel.belle shared an exciting job update with our community! Thank you for sharing your inspiring story with us, Gabriel.

• @masterryan.prof continues to reign the Most Liked Chart by being incredibly helpful to our learners in our Community. Love your dedication, Ryan!

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Before you go Champions, could you share what you learnt by engaging in the activities mentioned above?

Please share your thoughts by replying below!

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Each of you will get:

• A 7 day extension on your current Dataquest subscription
• An exclusive Community Champions badge in our Community

[artur.sannikov96]

Well done Champions! You are helping a lot to make this community better.

[shas]

Thanks for the shout out to my guided project share. It is very motivating seeing the DQ community share constructive feedback and more importantly improve upon the work and share those as well.

An excellent way to progress on the learning journey outside the realm of the course work technically speaking.

[pudgiko]

Wow! It’s unbelievable! I’ve tried a lot of studying platforms but DQ is the best one. Friendly community, constructive feedback, great difficulty curve and unstoppable motivation.
Thank you Data Quest for helping us being better with every day.

[nityesh]

Here are the Community Champions for this week:

Personal project sharers:

@artur.sannikov96 shared a cool personal project with us where they scraped the web to create 2 exciting datasets - of public holidays and of long weekends in different countries of the world! Also, if you are looking to practice your analytics skills, Artur has proposed some questions to help someone kick off with the analysis.

Check it out here -

Personal Project: Working with Nager.Date API

Hello everyone! After I finished the API and web scraping courses on DataQuest I was very excited about the idea of creating my own datasets. There is some much data on the web that you can analyze and we have so powerful instruments to retrieve all this data. I decided to practice API and mainly used this amazing tutorial by DQ to create my own dataset. My initial idea was just to have fun writing some code but then I understood that I can create some useful datasets that other people can use …

Guided Project Sharers:

• @juanjosemunozp shared a Guided Project on Fighting Lottery addiction. This project is very well articulated and explained in a clear way.

• @veratsien shared a Guided Project on Predicting Car Prices. What’s unique about this project is how Veratsien used it to learn and experiment with creating plots with a slider in Plotly.

  I wanted to have a slider for the plots in this project to see results with different k-values and features. So I’m trying out plotly for the first time and am impressed with it! It conveniently generates nice-looking plots and the interactive part is always fun!

  Do check it out!

Guided Project Reviewers:

@adewalade and @jithins123 did a great job of giving very helpful feedback to help their peers in the community improve their Guided Projects. Thanks for your generosity, folks!

Most liked:

• @omarstinnerdata shared an exciting Extension of Practice Problem 12 from Dictionaries Mission Practice Problems that our Community loved. It shows an awesome inquisitive nature @omarstinnerdata. Keep it up!

Thanks for thinking about our community, Champions!

I am proud to present each of you with:

• A 7 day extension on your current Dataquest subscription
• An exclusive Community Champions badge in our Community

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Before you go Champions, could you share what you learnt by engaging in the activities mentioned above?

Please share your thoughts by replying below!

[prasadkalyan05]

Congrats Everyone

[artur.sannikov96]

Thanks @nityesh! I’m very excited about this project. It was actually one of the first almost fully independent projects that I did and , DQ helped a lot in improving my coding skills. Your platform really challenges people to code, solve problems and think analytically.

Well done @juanjosemunozp, @veratsien, @adewalade, @jithins123 and @omarstinnerdata!

Happy coding everyone

[veratsien]

Wow, thank you for the honor! I’m thrilled!

I really enjoyed experimenting with Plotly, and definitely recommend trying it out. It generates beautiful plots effortlessly, static, or interactive. It was also fun to get familiar with a different plotting library.

I just love how this community inspires us to learn, explore, share, and help each other. Great work everyone!

[omarstinnerdata]

Thank you! @nityesh What I learned doing this extension was that it is always important to do more than what you are asked to do if you truly want to master a skill(programming/coding in our case). Being curious pushes you to learn new ways of solving a problem. This in turn helps you build your coding knowledge as you get exposed to the new material, which then helps you get a better feel of which code to use to answer specific problems. Always go above and beyond.

Dataquest has really helped me in learning and advancing my coding skills. The structure of the missions combined with the respective practice problems has really helped fortify my knowledge of programming. This community is great for us to ask, share, and receive feedback on our work. Many thanks and congratulations to this week’s community champions. Keep up the good work!

[jithins123]

Thanks a lot @nityesh for this. It is a pleasure to know that my guided project reviews are helpful. I always wanted someone to have a better look at the projects I share here. So it is just that I am doing what I expect from others to do for me. Thanks again for this honour. And congratulations to everyone who made it to the list this week.

[nityesh]

A lot of interesting things were shared by our community in the past week. Here are the Community Champions who shared some of them:

Personal project sharers:

• @bholaprasad26 shared an amazing end-to-end project in our Community. Here Bhola did everything from scraping the data to doing exploratory analysis and creating charts to deploying it through Heroku on a website! You can check it out here. And while you are at it, please give Bhola some feedback.

• @KevinLuigiReyes shared another cool personal Kaggle project with us last week. This project does an analysis of grocery store dataset. Kevin pursued this project after learning a few courses at Dataquest. So, if you are looking to do something similarly independent, this is a great place to get some motivation.

Alternate Solution providers:

This week we also noticed a new trend in the Community - community members sharing alternate solutions to our courses. I believe that they create an awesome supplementary learning resource for all learners.

We want to encourage this behaviour. Therefore, I am calling out 2 of the people who provided us with alternative solutions:

• @masterryan.prof shared an alternative solution for one of our Command Line missions.
• @jonathan.s.spratt shared with us a briefer way of solving one of the problems from the SQL section.

Writers:

@fedepereira shared an insightful article with us about Showing your insights in R markdown as slides! Check it out below:

Show your insights in R Markdown as slides!

[campaign-creators-gMsnXqILjp4-unsplash] Introduction to R Markdown output formats I found it interesting to share with you that R Markdown makes it possible to share a markdown file in many formats. Suppose that you have to share your insights with people that don’t have the knowledge you have or even more important, with stakeholders! Then you need to use some kind of format that is friendly not only to you but to others as well. You may think about power point or something similar, isn’t it…

Most liked:

• @WilfriedF took a leap of faith and joined the Driven Data competition. He was kind enough to share his detailed experience with our community! Do give @WilfriedF’s post a read - it is very inspiring!

I joined the Driven Data competition! Thoughts

Hi, Well, after discovering the benchmark article thanks to Dataquest Download email, I finally decided 3 days ago to enter the competition. After a lot of optimization stuff I finally made my first submission one day after and obtained 70%, entering near the top 10% of the competitors ! Let’s say I was very excited since I had improved at my first attempt their benchmark which obtained without any kind of optimization only 30%. But the current leader of the competition is at 95%… and there is …

Guided Project Sharers:

• @adrianzchmn shared a cool guided project on analyzing eBay Kleinanzeigen Car Sale Data. Our reviewers have called it out for a great flow, cool Project Presentation Style and cool plots.

• @gualar shared another cool guided project on Exploring Hacker News. This project stands out because it is uniquely detailed and has lots of helpful comments. Much to learn from it!

Guided Project Reviewers:

Finally, I want to call out @jemartinezm1 and @artur.sannikov96 for giving helpful feedback to learners who share their Guided Projects in our community!

Thanks for participating in our community, Champions!

I am proud to present each of you with:

• A 7 day extension on your current Dataquest subscription
• An exclusive Community Champions badge in our Community

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Before you go Champions, could you share what you learnt by engaging in the activities mentioned above?

Please share your thoughts by replying below!

[artur.sannikov96]

Thanks again! I wasn’t expecting it this time

As always I learn a lot by reviewing the projects. In some cases, I see what has to be avoided in other I find out what I can improve about my projects.

Well done @bholaprasad26, @KevinLuigiReyes, @masterryan.prof, @jonathan.s.spratt, @fedepereira, @WilfriedF, @adrianzchmn, @gualar and @jemartinezm1.

Happy coding, everyone:)

[prasadkalyan05]

Congratulations Champs

[gualar]

Thank you so much!!
Sharing and learning from others makes the learning infinitely more valuable. It is a resource that we must take advantage of it. Thanks to all of you that spend your time helping and giving feedback to other’s projects!
Gas!!

[adrianzchmn]

Thank you so much!

Really didn’t expect this. I am feeling even more motivated now! And reading the other projects makes me want to learn more!
This is awesome ;D

[nityesh]

Here are our Community Champions for this week:

Writers:

Last week, @otavios.s wrote an good article in Dataquest Direct describing one of his personal projects. In this article, he walks us through the project and talks about the insights derived from his analysis. Do check it out:

Machine Learning for Churn Prediction: How companies find out their customers are leaving before they do

Customer churn is when a subscriber or a regular customer cancels his subscription or stops doing business with a company. Therefore, the churn rate is the measure of how many people stopped being a client of the company in a determined time period. [multiracial-businessmen-shaking-hands-multi-ethnic-partnership-concept-close-up-view] Businees photo created by yanalya - br.freepik.com In business administration, churn is a very important metric of how well the business is doing. If the churn…

Most liked:

@prasadkalyan05 received lots of love from our community by sharing the exciting update of finishing the Data Analyst in Python path. They elaborated on their experience and tells us an inspiring story.

Guided Projects sharers:

• @ksenia.kustanovich shared their Guided Project work on analyzing the NYC High School Data with us. After spending many hours working on it and taking a stab at the additional steps, Ksenia has produced something truly wonderful!

• @jemartinezm1 shared another guided project that analyzes the NYC High School data. What makes this project standout is the fact that @jemartinezm1 has taken inspiration from multiple excellent projects shared by our community. Standing on the shoulders of giants, eh?

Check both of them out to get some great ideas for your own projects.

Guided Project reviewers:

Finally I want to call out @veratsien and @Scylla for giving some awesome reviews on their peers’ Guided Projects. Thank you for generously helping out your peer by giving them feedback on their work.

Thanks for all you do, Champions!

Each of you will get:

• A 7 day extension on your current Dataquest subscription
• An exclusive Community Champions badge in our Community

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Before you go Champions, could you share what you learnt by engaging in the activities mentioned above?

Please share your thoughts by replying below!

[Scylla]

Thank You very much @nityesh !

Really I didn’t expect this kind of recognition. However , I am really happy to hear that my reviews were useful.
I love both DQ learning platform and the community. Specially I learnt a lot by reading others’ projects.
Cheers…
Scylla

[veratsien]

@nityesh Thank you! And congrats to the champions!

Thanks for all the awesome shares this week, everyone!

[jemartinezm1]

Thank you @nityesh!, I tried to see what else to learn looking the projects of the community, you always find gold in the projects.