(This is my first post via RMarkdown, which is a way of communicating code and graphs from R in a clean HTML format.) One of my three-credit courses this semester is a Directed Study in which I work on a research project and hopefully come up with a report and some cool results . After […]
The Philosophy of Learning From Data
Rarely am I more excited to go to class than I am on Tuesday nights for my weekly Data Mining lecture. While I’m already familiar with some of the concepts, our professor is doing a really good job of tying everything together around the central philosophy of practical machine learning, which is to make predictions […]
Decision-Making Breakdowns: Challenger Edition
I’m a big Twitter reader, and lately I’ve been seeing more and more examples of good journalism and storytelling that use data analysis and quantitative evidence to support a thesis. The IQuantNY tumblr is a great example of this. You can read more about it here, but basically, a guy named Ben Wellington is writing […]