I want to mark the week of my three-year blog anniversary by giving you an update from a technology innovation challenge by Feed the Future I talked… Read more “Three Year Anniversary Blog: Fall Armyworm Challenge Part 2, Technical Details”
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Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 12: Lasso
(Image from Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop) Today I’m going to build on the ridge regression blog we last talked about by comparing it with… Read more “Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 12: Lasso”
Feeding the Future: Fall Armyworm Tech Challenge
During this last semester in graduate school as I was *only* taking one self-paced data science course while working full-time, I came across an innovation challenge by… Read more “Feeding the Future: Fall Armyworm Tech Challenge”
Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 11: Ridge Regression
Today I’m going to go back to the conversation we were having about a month ago about the basic principles of machine learning, including the ridge regression… Read more “Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 11: Ridge Regression”
My Graduation Edition
The commencement invitation is in plain sight for me to see every day. The cap and gown have been ordered, the travel plans complete and the “Class… Read more “My Graduation Edition”
Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 10: Random Forest
After a two week mini series on data ethics, today I’m going to go back to the conversation we were having about a month ago about the… Read more “Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 10: Random Forest”
Neo4J and Cypher, Part 2 – Network Graph Medical Case Study
During the summer of 2017, I did a blog on learning the network graph tool called Neo4J and promised to return to the topic before I graduate.… Read more “Neo4J and Cypher, Part 2 – Network Graph Medical Case Study”
Data Science Ethics in the Digital Age, part 2
The implications of data mining got mildly creepy and a bit too personal the summer I began grad school in data science at Indiana University. I had… Read more “Data Science Ethics in the Digital Age, part 2”
Data Science Ethics in the Digital Age, part 1
A course on Data Ethics was included in my graduate curriculum at Indiana University but it can be a topic that gets lost in all the blogs… Read more “Data Science Ethics in the Digital Age, part 1”
Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 9: Decision Tree
In my last blog, I discussed using support vector machine supervised machine learning algorithm to determine where to fence in my cows. During the summer of 2017… Read more “Machine Learning for Beginners, Part 9: Decision Tree”
