KlausMichaelson:


It's simple. Go to my profile and click "Send an Email to KlausMichaelson"
From there we can chat Better Sir.

Grandlord:

Well, someone on YouTube made an argument that AI is still very young and that attaining the stage of artificial general intelligence (AGI) , where machines can actually predict our thoughts, is still very far away. The AGI stage is where most AI companies are aiming to get to.

Also, the guy said GPT3 is at most, an advanced auto-completion machine bound to make gross blunders. So maybe there's still time to get into IT, rake some good bucks and get out before doomsday. But web devs are sure going down first

Marveaux:

Kind sir,please do you know any books I can read to have a good theoretical knowledge of ML/DL?Not books about Data science as related to ML/DL(i.e python libraries),but more of the concepts of ML/DL as a whole.
Thanks.

emmy4real94:
AI can program itself or what?? neither Can AI operates on its own?? programmers will be relevant for centuries to come.

Grandlord:
GPT3 is already generating basic HTML/CSS pages. Scary.

Zabiboy:


1) [b]i clearly stated i havent gone into ML/DL....but i wonder why some of you guys think ML/DL is so special..[/b]Even the owner of this thread has repeatedly mentioned the core tools and softwares and ML/DL wasnt there...i'm not saying it's not important o but c'mon man, this is naija not Japan...
2) ....[b]forget all these long talk bro....No company will give you a project that would involve ONLY Numpy( again...i dont know of your ML/DL...i'm talking of DS/DA)
[/b]3) so after calculating, you wont arrange the data in properly using Pandas?? Or you wont use matplotlib or seaborn to show relationships??...

Anyways, i wont talk on this issue again...
Las Las, we go dey alright..
GoodLuck

Zabiboy:


Numpy alone can't be used to solve real life problems...
It has to be combined with other libraries

Note: I havent gone into ML or DL yet( i decided to go into web development after the core data science tools and softwares) so i dont know Numpy's use in ML/DL and if it can solve problems like the other guy said

GL

Raalsalghul:


Can you please tell me the application of "Numpy" in real life?

Grandlord:
Holy cow!
Man, I went to find out how far they've gone with GPT3, since it's been a while I followed it's development. I must say it's scary and impressive, what the guys at OpenAI have been able to create.

So basically GPT3 has the ability to transform English description to codes and that's bad for coders as it signals the beginning of an end to coding, ushering in the No-Code era.
I think it's the web developers that are going to get hit the hardest. A shift to a career in AI itself should be considered.

But then again, AI only thrives on what we feed it. And the question would be whether AI is creative enough to generate new codes an designs, better than human's.

Also, will these codes be bug-free and efficient? Or do we still need to spend hours debugging an fixing them? Which in that instance, would be counterproductive to the original purpose for which it was developed. Interesting times ahead.

Grandlord:
Look, it all boils down to one thing. Can GPT3 pass the Turing test?

Grandlord:


Well, until AI understands clients needs and specifications, I'm not even fazed
Maybe AI will eventually take over coding but surely, that's not happening in the next two lifetimes.

saheedniyi22:


Which resources did you use to learn flask,
I'm currently learning but there are limited courses online like Django.

Thanks in advance.

I use Miguel Grinberg "Web Development with Flask O'Reilly ".

tensazangetsu20:

Bros your proposals are good. Another thing. Instead of talking about how you would go about the job use that portion to send the client some of your work then end the proposal by telling him you are willing to get on a 10 minute call free or charge to discuss his project. All in all just keep applying. The more proposals the more the chances of getting one job.

tensazangetsu20:

Data science has very limited competition na and most of the people putting out jobs have some sort of technical knowledge. Lemme see how you write your proposal.

tensazangetsu20:


Post a sample of one of your proposals here and if you are a web developer, send your portfolio. I can offer some advice. Another thing is that its a numbers game las las. You might have a good portfolio and amazing proposals but you might not be sending out enough proposals. Even the freelancers from advanced nations send out as much as 30 applications to get just one job.

tensazangetsu20:
It might be possible but extremely difficult. As a developer, it's easy to show a portfolio which can convince someone to give you a job on Upwork but not so easy for a writer or any other niche.

I started Upwork as a digital marketer and while I was okay, I would apply to like 80 jobs and above to get one hit. Took a pause to learn how to code and have started taking it seriously back again and now for like every 10 applications I get 2 to 3 interviews. The last job I interviewed for I lost it because I hadn't built enough websites for the client to peruse through. He wanted something with good design and I am a front end developer and not a designer. The other interview I did for a German company this week was weird. The company sent their web page and wanted me to build some portions of it as a code test. It didnt look right. So I reported them to Upwork and blocked the company on Skype.

I think web developers have an easier chance if they have an existing portfolio to show compared to other niches. With digital marketing, your portfolio is your ad spend and conversion rate. Some clients want people who have done over 20k dollars in ad spend. Not easy for a Nigerian.

Breadfruit:


No, it doesn’t. It’s a conflict/ media study. I am focusing on newspaper reports.

Breadfruit:


I don’t understand. Am I not trying to get information from the internet now? I knew what I wanted but after speaking to a few IT people, no one could give me what I wanted until I came here. After all, I will analyze and interpret the data myself. I am writing the whole work myself, literature review which I am reading widely. If I need Sudan newspapers, in this age why travel to Sudan to get hundreds of newspapers spanning over 10 years, from different regions,when I can mine such off the internet.
The hard way is not always the only way please. We make things difficult for ourselves in Nigeria.

Fyi0:
What do you mean by learning how to trade drugs Are you a pharmacist? I pray you get arrested while selling those drugs. Nonsense!!
If you like don't learn the web dev that you want to learn. Be there trying to sell drugs. Because those that spent 6 years in pharmacy school are foolish.

SOLARPOWER1:
How do I get "real world" data analysis projects with python to work on? I can't just get data and be giving myself hypothetical questions to solve... I need real world sample project and questions that will force me to think out the solution and write the codes and visualization to implement them... Please elders in the house help a newbie, I know most elders here have passed through this stage before

Quinex2:
I'd always loved programming, so I started learning the basics of python but it's not been as easy as I thought I need the help of experts to forge ahead please. Really don't wanna give up!! (NB: I'm very teachable and won't give headaches

KlausMichaelson:


No be lie I can't learn everything at a time. I have to stick to my targets and have a defined goal. Thanks for the advice sir. I really appreciate it.

KlausMichaelson:


Exactly, I had the feeling it's beyond the use of Python only. Machine learning is coming to mind.

Honestly this stuffs aren't too smooth like I thought. I went through machine learning tutorial yesterday, I was introduced to Sci-kit learn and some decision trees and algorithms. I'm just stuck at so many things right now(numpy, powerbi , Django) . But there is no problem.

I have no choice than to keep learning. Thank you sir.

KlausMichaelson:
Good evening my Pros please I have a Target at the moment. I don't know if anyone has ever considered the exercise before. It goes this way;

I want to write a code that will predict a time table or roster for lesson teachers in a senior secondary school.
Each teacher must have two subjects to teach. They must also appear at least 2times/perioy in a week and the period they are to teach must not clash with their second subject in any of the lesson period. The Program should enable me prepare a time table for all the teachers' lesson period.


My head is aching me cos I've been thinking about it for quite a while now.

KlausMichaelson:


Wow. I appreciate your time and response Sir. Thank you very much.

Sir why didn't you try using
>>>try:

>>>except ZeroDivisionError:
to avoid ZeroDivisionError when zero is used as the denominator? or did your code checkmate it?? Pls go through my own updated code.

KlausMichaelson:


Sir I am very sorry to not have brought this to your notice. I really feel Happy having you around Sir. I have to force myself up this early morning to rewrite my code especially the area you brought in the try.... except ZeroDivisionError. I have tried using it in my code before now, but I just didn't know where to bring it in. Thanks a lot for the clarification.

Although I didn't use while loop, I was able to still use the if and elif. Sir your corrections are welcomed gladly.
Sir check my updated Post to see my new code

KlausMichaelson:


Good evening Sir

Your question:
What tells the user the kind of operations your program is capable of performing?

My Answer:
Calculation = input('addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or modulo? ')

Your Question:
What happens if the user does not enter the operations to be performed correctly as used in the program? Like Addition instead of addition (issue of cases).

My Answer:
I use .lower if I want any input to be in lower case i.e
Calculation = input('addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or modulo? ').lower

Your Question:
What happens if the user tries to divide a number by zero?

My Answer:
You use try except ZeroDivisionError or ValueError

But Sir I don't know where to to put in this try, except block in my program

The reason why I am yet to update my new code after about an hour now is because I don't know the position where the try..... except ZeroDivisionError and except ValueError block comes in. Please help me sir.

Thank you

def operation():
    
    '''
    You start the top of the program with while loop
    purpose: the program executes once and then checks if all condition are satisfied
    if no error is encounterd, the program perform its function and end
    else the while loop runs again and agin untill no error is encountered
    
    Let me know if there's anything you don't get
    '''
    while True: 
            x = int(input('Enter a number '))
            y = int(input('Enter another number '))
            calculation = input(f"'You can eiher enter addition, subtraction, multiplication"
                                f" or division to perform an operation'".lower() 
            
            if calculation == 'addition':
                print(f"result is {x+y}"
            
            elif calculation == 'subtraction':
                print(f"result is {x-y}"
            
            elif calculation == 'multiplication':
                print(f"result is {x*y}"
            
            elif calculation == 'division':
                '''
                this is where exception handling goes
                '''
                try:
                    '''
                    the next block first checks if the result has no remainder (modulus) i.e an integer
                    if the number has no remainder, you get the result of the division printed
                    else you print the result along with the modulus
                    I prefer to include this here instead of having it as a seperate calculation
                    '''
                    if x % y == 0:             
                        print(f"result is {x/y}"
                    else:
                        print(f"result is {x/y} remainder {x%y}"
                    
                    '''
                    You break the while loop if the above condtions run with no error
                    else, the user is forced to re enter the value again i.e the loop starts all over
                    '''
                    break
                    
                except ZeroDivisionError:
                    print ("can not divide by zero, enter a denominator other than zero"
                except ValueError:
                    print ("Invalid parameter"
operation() #just call the function

KlausMichaelson:


Ha Sir

There is no problem Sir. I am grateful for you Assessment. Thank you.

*What tells the user the kind of operations my program can run?

* What happens if the user does not enter the operations to be performed correctly as used in the program? Like Addition instead of addition (issue of cases)?

*What happens if the user tries to divide a number by zero?

Sir, I will give the updated code for it later today. Thank you very much sir. I really appreciate.

KlausMichaelson:
So I spent the previous night thinking of writing a code that can accept input from a user and run different operations on it. The operations are limited to Addition, subtraction, Division, Multiplication, and Modulo. I came up with this after much thought.


number1 = int(input('what number? '))
number2 = int(input('what number? '))
calculation = input('what operation do you want? ')

def operation(num1,num2):
addition = num1 + num2
subtraction = num1 - num2
multiplication = num1 * num2
division = num1 / num2
modulo = num1 % num2
if calculation == 'addition':
return addition
elif calculation == 'subtraction':
return subtraction
elif calculation == 'multiplication':
return multiplication
elif calculation == "division":
return division
elif calculation == 'modulo':
return modulo


result = operation(number1, number2)
print(result)

KlausMichaelson:



Lols Is I never said df.describe() gives ANOVA Sir. if it gives ANOVA why then should I still be bothered about ANOVA this or ANOVA that.

What I said was that df.describe()
brings up a sort of table showing some statistical analysis(Mean, Std, etc) of any data you provide for it and not ANOVA sir.

Anyways thanks for your advice.

KlausMichaelson:


Honestly, the reason why I'm very concerned about the use of ANOVA is simply because our Lecturers are always talking about it. I can actually do the calculations by the use of the various formula to get the required values for the ANOVA table. That's fine but what if I have a very large data?

The truth of the matter is that they wouldn't give me a straight forward answer as to the real life application of the ANOVA design neither will they tell me when to use it specifically whenever I ask them that question. They just beat around the bush.

ANOVA actually stands for Analysis of Variance and to my understanding, it is used to analyze Data that comes with a number of replications for a given Sample. It helps determine an experiment's Standard error, and some other parameters which I can't remember. My school books are far away from me at the moment.


Anyways, the truth of the matter is that you're right about the fact that one needs to be grounded in not only the Practical but the theoretical part of Data Analysis. Why I felt that ANOVA table could be gotten from any of these libraries or tools is simply because of a code I came across on pandas **df.describe( )**. It brings up a table showing some statistical analysis of any data you provide for it.

Maybe there is no ANOVA design from any of the tools or libraries but there is absolutely no problem. I'll work towards my other targets.

KlausMichaelson:
I'm so happy right now

I mean it's already a month and 6days in this journey. Before now, around 2019 or so, before school resumption I watched some videos on python but I didn't take it too serious. And yes I have a good foundation in Excel since my 300lvl cos I use it to plot assignments on graphs(A bit complex ones) and I make lot of money from it . I also understand the syntaxes and it's operations but I would still love to know more.

By June 20th 2020(last month) I saw this thread and I became very serious to know more about Data analysis. So serious that I had to Deactivate my Whatsapp cos it's always taking my precious time away.

Now here I am today and here are the things I have learnt after staying away from Social media for a month and 6days.
(1). Python (Intermediate tho )
(2). Pandas (Intermediate) although I can do almost anything with it but I won't still call myself a pro. Pandas is much better than excel as it could run many cells operations.
(3). Matplotlib (Same as pandas, my wonderful friend)
(4). Numpy ( still a learner cos I haven't seen much of it's use). And lastly
(5). Pyplot (my very good friend also)
Currently I'm leaning Seaborn and Powerbi.


Honestly speaking I know there are much more to learn . But seeing that I'm still a student, I feel I need to focus more on the ones that are more important to me as a student. So my targets are:

(1). Master all these tools in Data Analysis I've learnt so far. Later on after my studies, I'll learn Sql, Tableau and others.

(2). Find out which tool is best for ANOVA design table.

(3) Do Data Analysis for your fellow final year students undergraduate report and get paid
(4). Conduct Seminars for Students in Data Analysis and get paid

Please do well to profer any other library or tool to help meet my targets especially in the ANOVA design.

Thank you @Ejiod for the wonderful thread and to everyone on this platform