A Criminally Short Introduction to Semi Supervised Learning
Because there are more interesting problems than there are labeled datasets, semi-supervised learning provides a framework for getting feedback from the environment as a proxy for labels of what's "co...
4 Dec 20159min
Thresholdout: Down with Overfitting
Overfitting to your training data can be avoided by evaluating your machine learning algorithm on a holdout test dataset, but what about overfitting to the test data? Turns out it can be done, easily...
27 Nov 201515min
The State of Data Science
How many data scientists are there, where do they live, where do they work, what kind of tools do they use, and how do they describe themselves? RJMetrics wanted to know the answers to these question...
10 Nov 201515min
Data Science for Making the World a Better Place
There's a good chance that great data science is going on close to you, and that it's going toward making your city, state, country, and planet a better place. Not all the data science questions bein...
6 Nov 20159min
Kalman Runners
The Kalman Filter is an algorithm for taking noisy measurements of dynamic systems and using them to get a better idea of the underlying dynamics than you could get from a simple extrapolation. If yo...
29 Okt 201514min
Neural Net Inception
When you sleep, the neural pathways in your brain take the "white noise" of your resting brain, mix in your experiences and imagination, and the result is dreams (that is a highly unscientific explana...
23 Okt 201515min
Benford's Law
Sometimes numbers are... weird. Benford's Law is a favorite example of this for us--it's a law that governs the distribution of the first digit in certain types of numbers. As it turns out, if you'r...
16 Okt 201517min
Guinness
Not to oversell it, but the student's t-test has got to have the most interesting history of any statistical test. Which is saying a lot, right? Add some boozy statistical trivia to your arsenal in ...
7 Okt 201514min
