Applied Data Science and
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Tips, tricks, and comments related to topics in data science and machine learning. Used to be called "data mining and predictive analytics" but updated the title to reflect the language of the day!
Hosted by Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Top 5 Posts from 2011

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By far, the most visited post of 2011 was the " What Do Data Miners Need to Learn " post from June. The top five visited posts t...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Models Behaving Badly

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I just read a fascinating book review in the Wall Street Journal Physics Envy: Models Behaving Badly . The author of the book, Emanuel Derma...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Statistical Rules Of Thumb, part III: Always Visualize the Data

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As I perused Statistical Rules of Thumb again, as I do from time to time, I came across this gem. (note: I live in CA, so get no money from...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Yet another "Wisdom of Crowds" success

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I was at the Federal Building downtown San Diego for a consulting job, and met some representatives for a life and disability insurance comp...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

What do Data Miners Need to Learn?

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I've been asked by several folks recently what they need to learn to succeed in data mining and predictive analytics. This is a differen...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Number of Hidden Layer Neurons to Use

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In the linkedin.com Artificial Neural Networks group, a question arose about how many hidden neurons one should choose. I've never foun...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Statistical Rules of Thumb, part II

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A while back, Will Dwinnell posted on two books, one of which is one of my favorites as well: Will mentioned a few general topics covered...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Rexer Analytics data mining survey

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Rexer Analytics, a data mining consulting firm, is conducting their 5th annual survey of the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of da...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Predictive Models are not Statistical Models — JT on EDM

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This post was first posted on Predictive Models are not Statistical Models — JT on EDM My friend and colleague James Taylor asked me last ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Analyzing the Results of Analysis

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Sometimes, the output of analytical tools can be voluminous and complicated. Making sense of it sometimes requires, well, analysis. Follow...
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