Upgrading Myself Everyday

[2021-Dec-13] Since the year 2021 is ending within few weeks, I am making few goals for myself to track and codify my life a little bit. Yearly goals includes:

• Reading Books (Tech, Non-Tech)
• Listening to Podcasts (ex. Startrek Radio, Lex Fridman)
• Learn Skills (Tech, Non-Tech)
• Gain Certification (Ex. Airflow, AWS)
• Content Creation (Blog, YouTube Videos, Vlog)
• Study Course (ex. GAN Specialization)
• Academic (ex. Research Paper)
• Health (ex. Run KMs)
• Freelancing

Goals might change or updated according to the priority.

Updates

• [2022-Jan-12] Just remembered I made this plan nearly a month ago. Should I delete it or update?
• [2022-Feb-14] Lots of things has happened. Earned few bucks from Upwork, continued writing blogs, learning game development.
• [2022-Mar-04] Pausing game development, learning about Stock Market and writing blogs.
• [2022-Jun-25] Paused Game Development and now focusing on writing better development code. Writing blogs per week continued.

Year: 2022

Blogging Site

• Started dataqoil.com. But doing cross-posting on GitHub page also.
• Write atleast 1 blog per week about anything.
  • Data Analysis and Importance of Groupby in Pandas but not Just pd.groupby
  • Dynamic Tasks in Airflow
  • Connecting to MySQL Server in Windows Machine from WSL
  • Branching Tasks in Airflow
  • Plotting interactive plots with Plotly and Cufflinks
  • Walkthrough of Statistical Analysis in Data Science
  • Installing Julia in Windows and Running in Jupyter Notebook
  • Creating Awesome Data Dashboard with Plotly in Streamlit: Add EDA
  • Creating Awesome Data Dashboards with Plotly in Streamlit: Add Clustering Algorithm
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Moving Averages
  • Airflow in WSL but Using MySQL Installed in Windows as Default Database
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Trend Indicators
  • Central Tendency Vs Dispersion
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Growth Rates
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Getting Started with Timeseries Analysis
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Getting Started into Modelling Timeseries
  • Introduction to Probability for Data Science: Getting Started
  • Python for Stock Market Analysis: Alpaca API
  • Python Asyncio: Concurrent Programming
  • PyScript: Running Python in Webpages
  • MySQL: Triggers
  • A General Way to Perform and EDA
  • Scraping Tweets with Tweepy
  • Beyond and Within EDA: Taking EDA into Modelling
  • Taking Data Apps into WebApp: Using Streamlit, Plotly and Python
• Reach daily 100 views by the end of year.

Make a Game

SHHHHHHHHH do not share that game idea.

• Progress as of:
  • January 12: (not even written a single script.)
  • February 14: Written lots of scripts and still figuring out what did I do?
  • March 04: Paused game development.
  • June 25: Forgot what the idea was.

    Academic

    Write at least 1 paper by the end of year.

• Discussion on going with colleagues.

Read at least 1 paper per week.

• January 12: Not started yet.
• March 04: Not started yet.

Study Study and Study

Probability and Statistics

• Khan Academy
  • Revised inferential and descriptive parts (ex. IQR, Central Tendency, Tests).

Linear Algebra

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Calculus

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TV Shows to Watch

Better Call Saul

• January 12: Season 1 Completed.
• March 04: Already stopped watching because of too much work.

Certification to Gain

Airflow Certification from Astronomer

• January 12: Course completed 80%.
• March 04: Have not visited the Astronomer site from more than a month.
• June 25: Forgot the site name.

Reading Books

Philosophy

• The Trial and Death of Socrates
• The Republic
• Meno
• Symposium
• Gorgias

Science Fiction

• Death’s End by Cixin Liu
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Remote Control by Nnedi Okarofor
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

Non-fiction

• The Code Breaker by Walter Isascon
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life by Diane Tavenner
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
• Homo Dues: History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Misc

• The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
• The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles