Marc LaforetinTowards Data ScienceThe Data Engineer InterviewHow to craft the interview to choose the best candidate4 min read·Nov 27, 2020--4--4
Marc LaforetinTowards Data SciencePython vs SQL: Comparison for Data PipelinesBreaking into the workforce as a web developer, my first interaction with databases and SQL was using an Object Relational Model (ORM)…5 min read·Feb 16, 2019--19--19
Marc LaforetinTowards Data ScienceStart-up Life: 5 programming languages in 5 daysA whirlwind project with a big impact4 min read·Aug 21, 2018----
Marc LaforetinTowards Data ScienceMy first contribution to open-source softwareOpen-source software brings together many altruistic programmers that freely distribute their code to the world. As a programmer that…5 min read·Mar 12, 2018----
Marc LaforetinTowards Data ScienceHow to visualize distributionsYou have munged all the necessary data into a clean format, you’ve appropriately performed a snazzy statistical analysis and now it’s time…5 min read·Dec 24, 2017--8--8
Marc LaforetinTowards Data ScienceThe problem with p-valuesLike most people, I used to consider statistics a plague that I should try to avoid. However, my time as a medical researcher transformed…5 min read·Dec 17, 2017--7--7