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General • Jan 14, 2026

How to Organize and Clean Overwhelming Data

If you’ve ever opened a dataset and felt instantly overwhelmed—too many columns, unclear labels, duplicated information, and no idea where to start—you’re not bad at data analysis. You’re just dealing with clutter. And clutter, whether in a home or in a dataset, makes it hard to think. That’s where the Marie Kondo Blueprint for Data comes in. This approach borrows from a philosophy many people already understand intuitively: the idea that organization is not about keeping everything, but about keeping what matters.

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General • Jan 06, 2026

What to Do First When You Open a New Dataset

Most people are taught tools before they’re taught how to think when data is unfamiliar. That’s where the Mister Rogers Blueprint comes in. This approach isn’t technical at its core. It’s human. Gentle. Curious. And surprisingly effective.

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Python • Jan 13, 2023

Cleaning NBA Stats: Part 3

We collected the data we’ll be cleaning through web scraping in part 1 and part 2 of this series. We have 3 datasets overall which we will finally combine into one by the end of this section.

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Python • Jan 05, 2023

Web Scraping NBA Stats: Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we extracted data of all players who have won the MVP award from 1991 to 2021. If you would like to follow along and missed out on part 1 of this series, click here.

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General • Dec 31, 2022

Data Wrangling vs EDA vs ETL

Data wrangling and EDA are both concerned with preparing data for analysis, but they differ in terms of their focus and scope. These processes can overlap and be used together in different ways depending on the needs and goals of a particular project.

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Python • Dec 27, 2022

Web Scraping NBA Stats: Part 1

The ultimate goal of this project is to predict the MVP for 2022. I scraped the data from this website. I'll provide a list of links to all of the pages I'll scrape from to make it easier for you to follow along. The project is also on my GitHub page.

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General • Dec 20, 2022

6 Rules for Passing Any Job Interview

I recently just completed my first degree, a Bachelor’s in Information Technology with a major in data analysis. I have been doing projects to perfect my skills and learning as much as possible about the interview process.

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General • Dec 15, 2022

The Data Analysis Process

As an intermediate~ish data analyst, I finally feel like I have the confidence to share something valuable with aspiring data analysts like me. So today we will start with the basics; the data analyst process.

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