- Ajayi, Moyo
- McNew, Coy
- To assist in creating the visibility of the Data Science team, Coy and I thought we would start a team blog, or as we call it, a reflections page
- Other data science teams have used blogs and reflections pages to communicate their completed projects and highlight
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Example blog: Uber
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- Technical explanations
- Rome was not built in a day, lay the groundwork here for building bridges to success 🛠️
- These types of posts will require the writer to:
- Establish a data-related topic (e.g., “Evaluating a binary classification model”)
- Demonstrate what you will teach regarding the topic (e.g., “Use benchmark data to build a model prototype and then execute various strategies to evaluate its fit”)
- Provide code and graphic examples where appropriate to help the reader understand 1. and 2.
- Summarize demonstration
- Documentation or Reference
- Just finished a difficult task and want to leave breadcrumbs for the next person? Write a helpful post 🖥️
- These types of posts will require the writer to:
- Identify general topic or piece of established code
- Illustrate the key principles behind the use case for the topic or codei
- Provide either further context behind the use case or a step-by-step description on how to use the reference or code
- Extracurricular Activities
- Data practitioners like to have fun too. This is a good way to share the joy ☀️
- These types of posts will require the writer to:
- Highlight the people and place(s) where the fun took place
- Provide a brief motivation and narrative of the event
- Supply context on how this experience was related to growth or how the time away from the computer was refreshing
- Team outings, conferences, and fun trips would all be applicable here
- Job Posting
- Instead of the wrote and plain Workday job post, we can make something flashier and more attractive on our site 🧑💻
- These types of posts will require to:
- Identify a current open role for the team
- Draft a relevant job but creative job description
- Embed related projects and/or other posts that would entice an enthusiastic candidate to apply
- Open source
- Publicly hosted
- Not officially affiliated with Bridgestone
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Join the organization on GitHub
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Clone or add remote to blog repo
GitHub - Overtrained/blog: This is the repo for the blog Machine Mindset
- Create a branch for your new post
- Add a post in .md under the _posts directory. There are many example posts under the _examples directory
- Once your post is finished, submit a pull request into main
- A preview page will automatically be deployed
- Automatic build checks
- Review required before merging into main
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Static website developed in Jekyll
- Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby
- Local dev includes making changes and/or adding content and serving site locally
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- Install prerequisites
- Bundle gems:
gem install jekyll bundler
- Create a new site
jekyll new my-site
- Navigate into site directory
- Serve site locally
bundle exec jekyll serve