Announcing the Community Champions for this week!

prasadkalyan05 · November 16, 2020, 4:05am

Congratulations Everyone!

nityesh · November 16, 2020, 12:19pm

Here are our newest Community Champions:

Personal Project sharers:

@phoebepreble shared their project in which they made An R Shiny App to Track Moths. This is an interactive web app that uses data from the app iNaturalist to track observations of Luna moths across the US.

Guided Project sharers:

@Elena_Kosourova shared another excellent Guided Project with us - it analyses the Star Wars Survey. It stands because of its beautiful charts.
@jithins123 shared a Guided Project where they analyze the NYC High School Data. It is well-documented, nicely structured and has nice visulisations. Nice work!

Guided Project reviewers:

I also want to call out @WilfriedF and @jithins123 for the excellent feedback that they leave on Guided Projects shared by our community. Thank you for lifting up your peers!

And thank you everyone!

I am happy to give you:

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

Before you go Champions, can you tell us - what is one thing that you learned last week that you didn’t know before?

Please share your answer by replying below!

Elena_Kosourova · November 16, 2020, 2:25pm

Thank you for this amazing news @nityesh and congratulations to all the champions! One of the new things I learned this week was how to deal with SettingWithCopyWarning and RuntimeWarning. So now I don’t have anymore those scaring red rectangulars in my projects!

jithins123 · November 16, 2020, 5:12pm

Thanks a lot Nityesh for this great news and congratulations to fellow champions. I this week I was fortunate enough to receive some amazing feedback on my guided projects which is definitely great.

vinodgchandaliya · November 18, 2020, 2:29pm

Congratulations Champion

nityesh · November 23, 2020, 6:37pm

Please join me in congratulating our latest cohort of our Community Champions:

Most liked:

@ananth.ch got a unique opportunity to jump on a call with a Data Scientist and asked him lots of interesting questions. Ananth was kind enough to take notes and share them with our community!

Check them out - lots of wisdom in there.
@vinodgchandaliya asked an interesting question to our community - How to build a live data science projects? @moriturus7 gave them wonderful advice. They connected our Guided Projects to the real world tasks and also laid down some steps to follow if you want to get more serious.

Do join the conversation with your own thoughts and perspectives.

Guided Project sharers:

@ksenia.kustanovich shared an amazing Guided Project analysing the Star Wars Survey data. Ksenia learnt 2 new libraries to finish this project - missingno and Plot.ly.

End result? A inspirational project with beautiful visualizations and clear logic. Ksenia has set a high bar for everyone attempting this project.
@AJBrillantes shared a very informational Guided Project that analyses the Chinook music store dataset. In this project, AJ walks us through their thought process on how they constructed every query. A great resource for beginners, I believe.

Guided Project reviewers:

Finally, I want to call out @veratsien and @artur.sannikov96 for generously providing really helpful feedback to strangers around the world.

Thanks Champions for giving life to our little community!

I am glad to give you:

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

Before you go Champions, can you tell us - What is the number #1 reason you come back to the Community?

Please share your answer by replying below!

veratsien · November 23, 2020, 7:39pm

@nityesh Thank you for the recognition! I definitely get a lot of satisfaction from being able to help others. And it’s one of the many reasons I come back to the community frequently.

I think the #1 reason for me to come back to the community is a sense of comradery. Self-learning is not like school, you take full responsibility for the initiative, accountability, and progress. It’s a lonely journey for the most part. But this community is one of the best in my experience, with a culture of helping each other, sharing generously, and recognizing the efforts of everyone in the community.

Great work as always everyone! Let’s keep it up.

artur.sannikov96 · November 23, 2020, 8:58pm

Thanks for the recognition!

Recently I don’t write that much on the community due to the lack of time (and I’m also finishing up my own personal project) but I really try to keep up with the reviews because as always I strongly believe in feedback systems that encourage us to constantly improve in our data science journey!

@vinodgchandaliya I really liked that you asked this question: I was also thinking about some real-time live system that will serve people for many months if not years:)

I could also try to build something similar for the non-profit organization I volunteer in (we have pretty many repetitive tasks to do, even though I partially automated them with Google Sheets standard formulas) but I can only imagine what I can do with the power of Python:) Maybe I should try!

Happy coding everyone

ananth.ch · November 23, 2020, 10:32pm

A pleasant surprise. Thanks @nityesh and DQ

My philosophy is simple : good documentation and automation are force-multipliers. If we have 100 people working on something and we can boost their productivity 10% through awareness of resources, then we get an extra 10 people for free.

AJBrillantes · November 24, 2020, 5:33am

Thank you very much @nityesh!

Hoping my project could be of help for those struggling to learn the logic behind SQL queries!

One of the I come back is due to the helpful atmosphere of the Community! It’s wonderful to have a culture of give and take which provides a great motivational spur in the learning process!

vinodgchandaliya · November 24, 2020, 6:11am

@nityesh Thank you so much ,

I see Dataquest community is my near friend, with whom I can learn and grow to serve fruits. This makes me to stay here, I may not be much live in community, but whenever I m there it feels better here

nityesh · November 24, 2020, 7:29am

Oh you definitely should! I am going to look forward to reading about your experience when you are done!!

prasadkalyan05 · November 25, 2020, 2:09pm

Congrats Champions!!

ksenia.kustanovich · November 30, 2020, 12:57pm

Thank you! It was a great fun to discover new libraries and get some nice results at the end. It´s my advice to everyone - not to be afraid of new libraries/solutions/etc., it´s a perfect time for experiments while we are still learning

nityesh · November 30, 2020, 6:17pm

We have 3 Community Champions to thank this week:

Most liked:

@ananth.ch shared some code that allows you to “find the stars in your (aggregate) dataset”. Thank you Ananth for always taking the time to share your hard-earned lessons with us!

Guided Project sharer:

@Elena_Kosourova shared a very good Guided Project analysing the CIA Factbook Data. Elena followed their curiosity to create a comprehensive report containing interesting facts about our world.

Thank you for sharing your best work and writing those long, interesting posts in the Community. They are very helpful to other learners.

Guided Project reviewer:

Special thanks to @Elena_Kosourova and @WilfriedF for going through their peers’ Guided Projects and giving them feedback that helps them improve.

You’re helping create a better community for everyone!

I am glad to give you:

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

My deepest thanks to everyone who participates in our little Data Science community to create something bigger than ourselves.

With your sincere participation, we can create a camaraderie that reduces isolation for the brave self-learners and creates an amazing learning experience for learners around the world!

Elena_Kosourova · November 30, 2020, 6:39pm

Many thanks @nityesh! I’m very happy to be helpful to our amazing Community and to be recognized for it!
Cheers!

biadboze · December 8, 2020, 8:02am

Congrat @Elena_Kosourova and @WilfriedF

nityesh · December 8, 2020, 6:43pm

Here are the Community Champions for this week:

Guided Project sharers:

@WilfriedF did a lot of interesting things to our Predicting Car Prices Guided Project - used the MAPE scoring function, introduced elbow detection point and more.
@ahadov.rufat shared a great project that analyses The Gender Gap In College Degrees. Ahadov’s project is notable because it is very well-organised and contains dynamic and efficient code.

Guided Project reviewers:

@brayanopiyo18 and @Elena_Kosourova are our notable Guided Project reviewers for the last week. They did an amazing work of providing their peers with actionable feedback on their Guided Projects.

I am so glad to reward each of you with:

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

Before you go Champions, can you tell us - What is the number #1 reason you participate in the Community?

Please share your answer by replying below!

Elena_Kosourova · December 8, 2020, 6:56pm

That’s another great news for today! Thanks a lot @nityesh and congratulations Champions!

WilfriedF · December 8, 2020, 7:39pm

Very grateful for receiving the Community Champion badge for my guided project. Do not hesitate to let feedback, positive or negative, it’s always motivating to hear someone talking about your work! Need to know what I am doing wrong and what I am doing well.