Hello World! And Why I’m Inspired to Start a Blog
A reflection on what inspired me to start a blog and three reasons I think it could be a good idea.
Matt raises his arms in joy at the world.!
Well, I’ve been thinking about getting this blog started for months now. I guess a combination of inertia, up-front investment in blogging platform selection/setup, and spending a little too much time writing and rewriting the first content post has drawn out the period from initial inspiration to making the blog a reality. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited to finally get things going.
Before we dive headlong into the weeds of ML algorithms, statistical methods, and whatever I happen to be learning and teaching at the moment, I figured it would be good to articulate why I’ve felt inspired to get started blogging in the first place. Hopefully this will serve the dual purpose of clarifying my intentions and introducing a vastly underappreciated concept in data science that I hope to weave through the posts to come.
Learning
The initial inc…
