Publications by Felipe Yamamoto Tenedine
Dr. Semmelweis and the Discovery of Handwashing
Meet Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis A Hungarian physician born in 1818 and active at the Vienna General Hospital. If Dr. Semmelweis looks troubled it’s probably because he’s thinking about childbed fever: A deadly disease affecting women that just have given birth. He is thinking about it because in the early 1840s at the Vienna General Hospital ...
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Rise and Fall of Programming Languages
1. Data on tags over time How can we tell what programming languages and technologies are used by the most people? How about what languages are growing and which are shrinking, so that we can tell which are most worth investing time in? One excellent source of data is Stack Overflow, a programming question and answer site with more than 16 mi...
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Exploring the Kaggle Data Science Survey
1. Welcome to the world of data science Throughout the world of data science, there are many languages and tools that can be used to complete a given task. While you are often able to use whichever tool you prefer, it is often important for analysts to work with similar platforms so that they can share their code with one another. Learning wh...
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Wrangling and Visualizing Musical Data
1. Introduction How do musicians choose the chords they use in their songs? Do guitarists, pianists, and singers gravitate towards different kinds of harmony? We can uncover trends in the kinds of chord progressions used by popular artists by analyzing the harmonic data provided in the McGill Billboard Dataset. This dataset includes professio...
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Level Difficulty in Candy Crush Saga
1.Candy Crush Saga Candy Crush Saga is a hit mobile game developed by King (part of Activision|Blizzard) that is played by millions of people all around the world. The game is structured as a series of levels where players need to match similar candy together to (hopefully) clear the level and keep progressing on the level map. Candy Crush ha...
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Visualizing Inequalities in Life Expectancy
1. United Nations life expectancy data Life expectancy at birth is a measure of the average a living being is expected to live. It takes into account several demographic factors like gender, country, or year of birth. Life expectancy at birth can vary along time or between countries because of many causes: the evolution of medicine, the degree...
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Scout your Athletics Fantasy Team
1. Athletics needs a new breed of scouts and managers Athletics goes back to the original Olympics. Since then, little has changed. Athletes compete as individuals, seeking to throw the farthest, jump the farthest (or highest) and run the fastest. But people like cheering for teams, waving banners and yelling like mad during matches, wearing...
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What Your Heart Rate Is Telling You
1. Heart disease and potential risk factors Millions of people develop some sort of heart disease every year and heart disease is the biggest killer of both men and women in the United States and around the world. Statistical analysis has identified many risk factors associated with heart disease such as age, blood pressure, total cholesterol...
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