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Guido Tapia
Vowpal Wabbit for Windows and Binary for Win x64
Getting VW working on windows is a real pain. Even though I had the whole environment set up as described on the readme it still took me a good couple of hours to build. So with absolutely no guarantee or support…
Property Market Predictions - PicNet Predictive Analytics
This post explores options for the application Machine Learning techniques to the Australian residential property market with the objective of predicting insights that would be useful for buyers, sellers and the…
The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists
Kaggle is an interesting company. It provides companies a way to access Data Scientists in a completion like format and a very low cost. The value proposition of Kaggle for companies is very clear; this article will…
Fluent python interface for Machine Learning
I often say that Machine Learning is like programming in the 60s, you prepare your program, double check everything, hand in your punch cards to the IBM operator, go home and wait. And just like back then, if you had a…
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Naming Conventions in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
In this article I am going to discuss the importance of naming conventions in ML projects. What do I mean by naming conventions? I mainly mean using descriptive ways of labelling features in a data set. What is the…
Project Management for a Wifi rollout
Successfully managing a project requires a finely tuned balance of technical knowledge, communication skills, and coordination abilities. Project management is just that - the ability to manage a team of individuals,…