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Congrats.
My gf is also from the north,I'm from Delta state as well and I'm also a corps member

Drsmartphilips:
i need some assistance with a task, can i get some assistance

Sure

Ayinke93:
I created this thread to encourage someone going through the pain of transitioning to tech at the moment and to remind them that they are making a decision their future self will thank you for. Sometimes in June last year, I resigned from my job at a Nigerian bank to take up a 30K internship as a software developer. To be honest, that's easily the best decision I've made in my entire life. This month I got offers worth more than 5 times what I was earning at the bank after applying for jobs for just about 2 weeks. and I have not even spent up to a year in the industry. I'm going to outline some of the steps I took below:

1. If possible, get an internship: I know this can be difficult, but trust me, the experience accelerated my learning. One thing that helped with the two internships I got within the period I started was networking. Tell everybody you know about your plans, you don't know who might be willing to help.

2. Intense focus: I stayed off social media for over 6 months during the period I was learning. Trust me, this is not the time for distractions and frivolous activities.

3. Practice and build projects: I can’t emphasize this enough. Build projects and put them on your GitHub because some recruiters check your git. In one job I got, the interviewer was very excited about one web scraping project I did in my very early days. Sincerely, I had no idea that the project could help me in any way. So please, build and push to GitHub every time.

4. Redo your resume and LinkedIn: You want your resume to reflect that you've been working in tech. Nobody cares about the customer service job you did in 2015. Also, LinkedIn is the best place to get jobs, and I feel so many people underutilize it.

5. Get a mentor: to be honest, I couldn't have gotten anywhere without the solid mentorship around me. You need to have someone you look up to in this industry because they have more experience than you and the guide will take you far. Just show interest, be teachable, be hardworking and let your mentor see that you are motivated. You'll be surprised at how kind people are.

6. Network! Network! Network!: see I can't overemphasize this. you need people to grow. I surrounded myself with tech people, and I can't count the number of times random things I picked from conversations came up in my interviews.

7. Stay curious and stay motivated. The sky is the starting point.

Had to add in number 8. A lot of people talk about looking for jobs on LinkedIn and only sprinkle 1 or 2 applications here and there and get discouraged. Note that I applied to over 200 jobs in 2 weeks and got less than five call backs and 2 offers. Just calculate the success margin. In the end, it's a game of numbers. Keep grinding and grind hard.

Lastly, I’m not going to lie, transitioning to tech will test your sanity and I mean that with all seriousness. This is a link to a thread I created in December; https://www.nairaland.com/6887200/learning-code-hard,  but trust me, it’s worth it. Rooting for you all!

@ your number 4, what do people mean when they say one should have a good LinkedIn profile? What makes up an eye-catching LinkedIn profile?

What exactly is the question?

Homeboiy:
I was just scrolling through Facebook this night when this site popped up

Explore-Datascience.net
I read through it and I applied

I was asked 30 questions to know if I will be qualified for admission

I got most of the questions wrong and I was denied

One of the questions

17C2= 136

Hinokami:
Thanks. I guess it ain't bad to start learning dbt ASAP

These tools you just mentioned, are they data analysis tools or data engineering tools?

A Messi fan through and through, but when Ronaldo does things like this, I have to doff my hat to him. Respect.

lovelybobo:
Data Analyst Project Example for Portfolio

This is to provide ideas, guidance and inspiration on those hoping to embark on personal project for their Data analyst portfolio

Nairaland Politics project
Background of the project:
Nairaland is a Discussion forum where people come and share their thoughts on different topics.
The site is divided into categories and sections to guide the users.

Scope of the project:
This project shall focus on the first 300 pages of the politics section of nairaland.com

Project Questions:
1 What is the topic with the highest number of views
2 What is the topic and original Poster of the topic with the highest number view
3 What is the topic and original Poster of the topic with the highest number of comments or updates
4 Which post was last updated and when in the 300 pages scraped or oldest in terms of update
5 Who are the most active users in the politics section of Nairaland and how many topics did they create
6 Which month had the highest number of Headings
7 Any other question that can help us understand the data very accurately

Project Task:
task 1 : Write a python script to scrape 300 pages from politics category of nairaland.com
task 2 : using necessary libraries clean and analyze the data
task 3 : present your result using suitable visualization

Skills demonstrated in the Project :
1 Web scraping
2 Regular expression usage
3 Writing to a file
4 Data manipulation
5 Data cleaning
6 Data visualization
7 Research
8 Documentation

Column name definitions for the project :
1 Heading : The title of the thread
2 Poster : The person that created the thread
3 Updated : How many times contributions have been added to the thread
4 Viewed : How many people opened the thread to read the content without contribution
5 Time : The time and date the last contribution was made on the thread
6 Last_Updated : The lasted person to make contribution to the thread

https://github.com/brightonu/portfolio_projects/blob/main/politics_project_Final.ipynb

Very impressive �

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lkillbrokehoes:
The kid no even know if he go spend extra year lol

That "kid" has a cgpa above 4.5

See your tum tum belle like alleluia band

Orestino:
Wa n bi Saka

What does this mean in english?

I've been having a thick red discharge in my stool since yesterday, I don't know what it is. Please can anyone help me out and should I be seriously concerned?

Patriotic9ja:
Infact paste..... 1st 10 to paste aza go receive bluez alertz

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Gentleman001:
Hello Bosses in the house, please help me check this code out, it run fine but I don’t understand the concept behind it and I don’t want to cram it.. the scope is to print the reverse of any input number...
Please someone should explain the concept for me
Also am trying to run it with “for loop” but it giving different Output, is it that, it can only with done with “while loop”

The concept is to print the remainder of the number divided by 10(which in essence will always give you the last digit)then making the new number the result of the previous number divided by 10(rounded down) and then repeat until the number gets to 0 .
Example:
N=24
24%10=2 R 4(print 4)
N=24//10= 2
Repeat
2%10=0 R 2(print 2)
N=2//10=0
Stop
For loop in python requires a sequence, basically you most times have to know where you're heading to, which isn't feasible in this case. I think.

GidiCars:
Just use


y[::-1] to print numbers in reverse

An int is not subscriptable, so this won't really work.

Singingbae:
Thanks I got it already but I’ll also need you to check the latest goggle colab I did and see if the visualization is really that of a linear regression!
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mQEpInsPMW_Blz5DPAWpbZGVqjwZxVW5#scrollTo=oqqIxy3KDmMN

Most times for me (might be different for you) I try to visualize the data first before carrying out any predictive analysis. It can help to tell you what type of algorithm to use((linear,polynomial) regression e.t.c).
From your data(which in my opinion is quite sparse,a lot of 0s), I don't think you should be plotting the x against y or vice versa since it's a scatter plot, rather reduce the dimensions (PCA) to say 2 components and then plot the two components against each other.
plt.scatter(component_1, component_2).
Note: sometimes the visualization won't really tell you anything i.e if it's linear or something else.
Hope I helped,Cheers.

hexzelle:
i used conditional formatting to get those colors on the image, but it was a manual process, i want to have it automated.

but i doubt excel automates functions.

Would have loved to help, but I'm honestly still trying to wrap my head around your question.

But what has the lady been eating, before her "father" found out about the issue and decided to bring her food?

hakeemhakeem:
this is the work on pc

It's unclear, you're missing a keyword according to the error, although I can't tell which one. Can you take a better picture?

hakeemhakeem:
I would like to appreciate all contributors of this thread especially the op reason is this post revamped my 20 years dream of programming left incomplete, it better late than never. this is my 3rd months on SQL but am having some challenge on my script I tried using 2 fk on this table below. pls problem shared is a problem halved
created table supplier (
supplier_id number (7)not null,
supplier_name varchar2(20)not null,
country varchar2(20),
phone number (30)not null,
dates date,
orders_id number (7)not null,
qty number (7)not null,
amounts number (10,2),
shipping_id number (7)not null,
shipping_name varchar2(30),
constraint supplier_pk primary key(supplier_id),
constraint orders_pk foreign key(orders_id),
constraint shipping_pk foreign key (shipping_id),
reference orders(orders_id),
reference shipping(shipping_id));
error report missing keyword
pls urgent attention

Shouldn't that be "references" not "reference"?

elvisgaga:
am sorry if my explanation is not clear enough, the thing is the online tutorial requires me to input the sql code direct in thier platform online but I would like to run the code offline but I don't know if am to use notepad, I researched it, I was seeing setting up local server but I still want the gurus here to break it down for me. Thanks

Download and install sql server 2017 ( developer edition) and sql server management studio (SSMS).Find a YouTube tutorial to help you understand how to use it. Good luck

Mrves111:
Thank you very much bro so I should now used
is.path.cv2.imread()?

I'm not really sure what you mean,but anyways ,you can also try putting that particular part of the code in a try except block in case you have faulty images in your directory.

Mrves111:
I want to perform multiple image processing using opencv in jupyter notebook. I tried to upload the datasets (images) that's stored in my desktop using this code:

import os
import numpy as np
import cv2

img = cv2.imread('/User/victor/Desktop/data/mask/facemask.jpg', 0)
img



import os
import numpy as np
import cv2

resize_width = 100
resize_height = 100
path = '/User/victor/Desktop/data/mask/facemask
images = [] # List to append the images as 2D numpy arrays.
target = [] # List to append the target
originalrepo = [] # Create a repo for flattened pixels

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
for file in files:
with open(os.path.join(root, file), "r" as auto:
img = cv2.imread(root+'/'+file, 0)
img = cv2.resize(img, (resize_width, resize_height))
images.append(img)
# Append the flattened image to the pixel repo
originalrepo.append(img.flatten())
# Append the folder where the image is to the target list
target.append(root.replace(path,'').replace('/',''))
# Convert the repo list into numpy array
originalrepo = np.array(originalrepo)
print(originalrepo)
print(target)

I got this error :"opencv(4.5.1)/private/var/folders/nz/vv4_9tw56nv9kvyaszvwg80000gn/T/pip-req-build-39p1qqfs/opencv/modules/imgproc/src/resize.cpp:4051: error: (-215:Assertion failed) !seize. Empty() in function 'resize'

Please I'm appealing for assistance, if there's another simpler code I could use or if I made any error.
Note that I opened the jupyter notebook in the same folder that the dataset are located.

try using os.path.join in the cv2.imread() method instead of concatenating the root and file,and also is there really a need for the "with" statement because you didn't use it?

PrettySmart:
What are bi-directional attention networks? And their applications...


Please, I need some explanations and articles on topic.


Thanks...

I think attention networks are the main component of transformer architecture models used in nlp tasks such as text generation, question/answering systems.
You could check google for "BERT" or "XLNET" or preferably the "transformer architecture".

P.s:this doesn't really answer your question completely but I just thought to point you in a particular direction.

I've come to realize that most times men love kids while women love their kids.

I want to ask, for those who say BBN is entertainment,what makes entertainment entertaining if it's not accessible?

mandy88:
Pls pls can you assist me with the eBook..
Send to amiablemandy@gmail.com.thanks and God bless.

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Masrurr:
Please assist with the eBook
aidaris086@gmail
Thanks

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