Editing Google Compute Engine (GCE) Instance Settings
Few months ago I started the streetcred project on Google Cloud Platform, scheduling scraping tasks on Google Compute Engine. Here are some things I learnt about editing Google Compute Engine …
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gcloud-monitor
gcloud-monitor is a repository of tasks that monitor and restart preemptible Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine instances to maximize availability. Continuing on the streetcred project, gcloud-monitor was spun out of …
Comparison of Pandas Compression Modes
The Problem I’ve been working on a side project to log real-time traffic statistics across Singapore and make the historic data publicly available. The real time APIs from LTA refreshes …
(An attempt in) Quantifying Supply Induced Demand in Public Healthcare Facilities
One interesting phenomenon observed in public healthcare is that when additional healthcare capacity, such as hospitals, are added, the resultant demand for healthcare resources seems to grows and fill the …
Books to read for an introduction to algorithms
In preparation for my upcoming masters program I decided to read up on algorithms. For context I would consider myself as having no/ negligible prior knowledge of algorithms, despite having …
Deploying on Heroku vs App Engine – the basics
If you’re looking for somewhere to test deploying a small web service without much hassle and incurring costs/ much costs, Heroku and Google App Engine are 2 possible choices. This …
Simple projection of Singapore’s population using historic data
My initial attempt at projecting Singapore’s population for the next 2 decades with as simple a model as possible. Another work related task as population has been established (or assumed?) …
Embeddings for Medical Diagnosis Codes
Few months back I embarked on a new journey- still in data science, but in the field of public healthcare. Quite a change from the world of travel and web …
Exploring healthcare and population datasets from Singapore Department of Statistics
Being in public healthcare has created greater impetus for me to find more datasets relating to different aspects on Singapore, from the economy, to society, and of course, healthcare. Some …
Why Embeddings
I got intrigued by the concept of embeddings recently and decided to read up on it. It was a handful just trying to grasp the basics, and there was quite …