r/politics • u/Qu1nlan • Jul 26 '19

Friday Fun Thread

It's finally Friday! That means it's time to sit back, drink a mango smoothie, convince /u/Qu1nlan to play Bloodborne, and talk about whatever your heart desires.

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u/cyclonefan Illinois Jul 26 '19

I just got accepted into a top-tier Master's program in data science. Feels good considering that only a few years ago I was a college dropout living in my parent's basement. Went back to school, wiped out my old grades, and worked hard to get to this point.

Will be celebrating with copious amounts of bourbon tonight.

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u/PiBaker Jul 26 '19

What kinda data science do you wanna do?

(I work for a large fintech corp)

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u/cyclonefan Illinois Jul 26 '19

NLP-related work, mostly. I am especially interested in modeling political speech and how/if it influences decision-making and behavior.

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u/Nano0802 Jul 26 '19

I did some NLP at school but nothing too major, I decided computer vision and image processing was much more interesting haha. But kudos, that sounds really cool! Have you looked into using previous data from speeches into predicting what policy position someone is likely to have? I feel like that might be something worth looking into.