by George Perrett - Applied Statistician and Research Scientist What are your plans for the weekend? While it is easy to imagine that Americans spend their weekends differently, this is a challenging question to empirically validate. Describing the average American’s weekend plans is an easy exercise in descriptive statistics. On average, the typical American spends … Continue reading Working on the Weekend Like Usual: A cluster analysis of how Americans’ spend their weekends
by George Perrett - Applied Statistician and Research Scientist Feature Selection Choosing a coffee is fundamentally an exercise in prediction. Presumptive coffee drinkers are presented with an onslaught of variables describing a coffee’s origins, flavors, sent, texture and roasting processes. The combination of variables can rapidly increases to the point of becoming overwhelming. While to … Continue reading LASSO a better cup of coffee
I recently started reading the book Python Machine Learning by Sebastian Raschka. As I go through the book, I plan on doing a series of posts that will outline what I learn along the way. This post outlines the first chapter, "Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification". Specifically, the chapter dives into using a Perceptron … Continue reading Training a Perceptron Model in Python
