Posts
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Volunteering as a Data Scientist in Rwanda
In the last 10 years I have worked in Data Science, growing in experience as each year passed. These 10 years have been mostly about “self improvement”. I wanted to finally enter more of a “giving back” phase of my life by volunteering to impart my knowledge onto young adults that have not had equal opportunity, but still incredible potential.
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Subset selection for climate prediction
The Goal
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41-Year Rainfall and Temperature Timeseries over Cape Town
The current drought around the Cape Town area got me to do a basic analysis of long-term (1977-2017) rainfall and temperature changes observed from the weather station at Cape Town International Airport. This is the analysis that I have been looking for but have not found. I mainly wanted to know if the recent hot and dry conditions are a consequence of normal year-to-year variability or if there’s a long-term trend. There is a cool new tool by the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG) from UCT, but I was looking for a few different types of figures.
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The bias-variance tradeoff
Prelude
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Python Crash Course
A crash course for data scientists / climate scientists new to Python. With the help of example code, learn how to: read in netCDF files; generate maps; calculate area-weighted averages; plot time series; write list-comprehensions (i.e. more compact loops); and use CDO within Python using the CDO Python module.
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