Melissa Prax

Software engineer
Freelance journalist
Data science & visualization
Idealist. Wanderluster. Feminist.

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For my latest article, I interviewed @SenDuckworth and other mommas about how we can make traveling while breastfeeding more accessible and more hygienic:

https://t.co/yx0LMysr1q via @MsMagazine

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@GrnEyedBAAndit Thanks!😄

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After weeks of hard work with a great team, it was exciting to deploy the annual employment outcomes web page today for Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. Grateful to be the main developer on projects like this! https://t.co/HfFGmk7yUT

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#100DaysOfCode Day 40! Today I'm beginning to learn how to work with big data. I got my machine set up with PySpark and will be working to run through some dataframe basic tutorials

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#100DaysOfCode Day 39! Using S3 Buckets and Amazon Sagemaker to deploy machine learning models

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Just discovered Google Collab and I'm nerding out

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#100DaysOfCode Day 38! Using @TensorFlow and the sklearn library to make a neural network

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#100DaysOfCode Day 37! Today I'm continuing with supervised machine learning — specifically, decision trees

[Professor Michael Flood @MichaelGLFlood]

To achieve gender equality, men and boys must join the call for paid & unpaid care to be central to political, social and economic plans, says the new #StateoftheWorldsFathers report, launched as part of @MenCareGlobal at @WomenDeliver
Read more: https://t.co/j94pmnVvpw

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#100DaysOfCode Day 36! Today, I'm diving into supervised learning — specifically linear regression and logical regression with sci-kit learn.

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@CodewithYaku Just wrapped up a data viz dashboard using Python, SQL, Flask, HTML, CSS and JavaScript! I didn't realize how particular Flask was, so it was definitely a learning curve

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#100DaysOfCode Day 35! I've been coding so much, I haven't even had time to tweet. But today I'm starting to learn unsupervised machine learning and basic modeling — including clustering — in Python.

[Annette Choi @annette_choi]

Illustration-driven piece contextualizing where the missing Titanic sub was headed, collab with @amyokruk https://t.co/M0nFMqyxIT

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Couldn't tell you why, but seeing this many markers populate is making me itchy lol

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#100DaysOfCode Day 34! Continuing work on my JavaScript dashboard. Today I'm working on limiting the number of markers my Leaflet map renders so my application load time is reduced.

[Global BC @GlobalBC]

“We have a lot of families that were interested in dancing and making regalia but the cost of living is just so expensive that it’s not in their price range ... We really wanted to give people low-barrier access to their culture.” @vanaboriginal https://t.co/XIfiogClEc

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#100DaysOfCode Day 33! Beginning to work on a full-stack data visualization dashboard. Going to be using Python, Flask, SQLite, JavaScript + libraries. Today I'm creating the file structure and mapping the steps for completion. Stay tuned for progress!

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I'm going to look into starting creating some blog posts on different technical topics. Wondering if Medium or if there's another platform that would be best

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I realized today I REALLY enjoy writing technical documentation

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#100DaysOfCode Day 32! Working with Leaflet.js to map and create markers