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Stefanie Molin
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Stefanie Molin is a data scientist and software engineer at Bloomberg LP in NYC, tackling tough problems in information security, particularly revolving around anomaly detection, building tools for gathering data, and knowledge sharing. She has extensive experience in data science, designing anomaly detection solutions, and utilizing machine learning in both R and Python in the AdTech and FinTech industries. She holds a B.S. in operations research from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, with minors in economics, and entrepreneurship and innovation. In her free time, she enjoys traveling the world, inventing new recipes, and learning new languages spoken among both people and computers.
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The materials for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/stefmolin/Hands-On-Data-Analysis-with-Pandas-2nd-edition/tree/master/ch_05. We will be working with three datasets, all of which can be found in the data/ directory. In the fb_stock_prices_2018.csv file, we have the daily opening, high, low, and closing prices of Facebook stock from January through December 2018, along with the volume traded. This was obtained using the stock_analysis package, which we will build in Chapter 7, Financial Analysis – Bitcoin and the Stock Market. The stock market is closed on the weekends, so we only have data for the trading days.

The earthquakes.csv file contains earthquake data collected from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) API (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/) for September 18, 2018 through October 13, 2018. For each earthquake, we have the value of the magnitude (the mag column), the scale it was measured on (the magType...

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