Google Trends is an incredibly insightful tool to capture search trends of Google users. Coming from a revenue management background in the hotel industry, using search trends could influence several pricing and marketing decisions such as identifying need dates for promotions, potential high demand periods, evaluating potential lost business by…

The NFL continues its quest for improving player safety, working closely with Amazon Web Services to develop the “digital athlete” in order to virtually analyze, predict and prevent player injuries. Preventing concussions remains top on the list of priorities. As most recently reported by…

My primary goal with this article is to highlight a practical application as a result of building a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. In general, CNN models have a wide variety of applications; in this case, it’s building a model that can accurately detect pneumonia in x-ray images. Sounds cool…

Police reform is a huge topic these days, especially as we get closer to a presidential election with two candidates who seem to have very different ideologies on the matter. A topic that could potentially be reviewed when looking at police reform is Terry Stops. In 1968, the Supreme Court…

This post covers some of the steps involved with basic exploratory data analysis in Python, primarily utilizing the Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn libraries. We won’t be diving into machine learning, modeling deep neural networks or utilizing gradient descent to minimize the cost function for a logistic regression model, primarily because…

I grew up in a very religious home, including going to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night. I went to a small Christian school K-12th grades, which eventually led me to go to one of the few Christian colleges that was highly encouraged in that environment. …