Articles by Mark Edney

Custom OpenAI Chatbot Pt1: PDF scanning

October 30, 2023 | Mark Edney

Photo by Levart_Photographer on Unsplash Introduction I have recently completed a project at work, the creation of a custom ChatGPT chatbot. I will break the project into two parts, the first part will scan a folder of PDF files into a data...
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Quarto: The successor to R Markdown

August 1, 2022 | Mark Edney

Introduction RMarkdown has been a staple for any Data Scientist that programs in R. Quarto builds on that, with multiple language support and additional features. Because of its language independent design, Quarto requires an independent installation....
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Level up your programming skills

May 1, 2022 | Mark Edney

How do you become a better programmer? Well, there is strong scientific evidence for the support of the principle of deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is a method of skill development first written by Anders Ericsson in the book “Peak: Se...
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Merging PDFs with Python

April 14, 2022 | Mark Edney

I am currently looking for a new job, which means I need to create many resumes and cover letters. When creating a resume, it is good practice to create a PDF file. PDFs cannot be edited, which can make them difficult to work with, but they reta...
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Simple Neural Networks in Python

March 20, 2022 | Mark Edney

Neural Networks (NN) have become incredibly popular due to their high level of accuracy. The creation of a NN can be complicated and have a high level of customization. I wanted to explore just the simplest NN that you could create. A framework ...
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Simple Neural Networks in Python

March 20, 2022 | Mark Edney

Neural Networks (NN) have become incredibly popular due to their high level of accuracy. The creation of a NN can be complicated and have a high level of customization. I wanted to explore just the simplest NN that you could create. A framework ...
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Python in R Markdown

March 3, 2022 | Mark Edney

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The main advantage of using the R Markdown format is the utility of running R code within the text. This is clearly more advantageous than just writing code in a Markdown file. R Markdown is however limited to ...
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