Jared Rand

70 posts

Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Control in PySpark

PySpark, a Python library integrated with Apache Spark, has revolutionized big data analytics with its speed, scalability, and efficiency. It offers a wide array of data transformation, analysis, and machine learning…

June 5, 2023

Product Roadmap: Fill Skill Gaps

The vision for Skillenai has always been to build tools that allow users to identify and fill their skill gaps. Now that a robust data science article aggregation service has been completed, Skillenai is ready for the…

May 24, 2023

Storytelling kids toy powered by ChatGPT

My son is turning 5 years old in 6 weeks and I want to build him the most powerful toy robot the world has ever seen. This robot's superpower will be...chatGPT. Requirements 1. Must be a physical toy that my son can…

March 21, 2023

System for Promoting Healthy Habits

I'm a goaloriented person. When I started this blog about 2 months ago, I set a simple goal of growing the domain authority of Skillenai. To achieve my goal, I set about writing articles on Skillenai and other sites. I…

January 11, 2021

Build a Data Science Team from Scratch

Is your organization beginning it's analytics or AI journey? One of the first steps will be building a data science team to help develop and deploy machine learning models. I was lucky to have the opportunity to be the…

December 9, 2020

Singleton Fails with Multiprocessing in Python

A singleton is a class designed to only permit a single instance. They have a bad reputation, but do have (limited) valid uses. Singletons present lots of headaches, and may throw errors when used with multiprocessing…

December 5, 2020

Designing a Blog Ranking System

Every year a slew of top blog lists are published for every topic under the sun (think "Top 10 Blogs in Data Science for 2020"). Most are manually curated, many are biased by the business interests of the publisher, few…

November 21, 2020

Popular Python Packages for Data Science

Discover the most popular Python packages for data science, including essentials like Numpy and Pandas along with hidden gems like Seaborn and spaCy.

November 14, 2020

What Does a Data Scientist Do?

Have you been wondering what a data scientist does? This article will clarify what a data scientist does and does not do. We'll show why data science is such a great career, and how it compares to similar roles. Why…

November 12, 2020