Scikits are Python-based scientific toolboxes built around SciPy, the Python library for scientific computing. Scikit-learn is an open source project focused on machine learning: classification, ...
Late last year, my colleagues on the Social Science team were working on a new survey weighting scheme that would greatly improve the precision of our public opinion data. To make it work, they needed ...
A binary classification problem is one where the goal is to predict the value of a variable where there are exactly two discrete possibilities. For example, you might want to predict the sex of a ...
Simplify complex datasets using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Python. Great for dimensionality reduction and ...
If there’s one thing that Hollywood knows about hackers, it’s that they absolutely love data visualizations. Sometimes it’s projected on a big wall (Hackers, WarGames), other times it’s gibberish ...
Machine learning with neural networks is sometimes said to be part art and part science. Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research teaches both with a full-code, step-by-step tutorial. A binary ...