Software Engineering
May 14, 2012
Solid Principles: Part One
Over the coming weeks I plan to do a bit of a study on the SOLID principles. SOLID stands for: ...
June 20, 2012
Solid Principles: Part Two - Open Closed Principle
‘Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification.' [R. Martin] The OCP is a set of strategies based on inheritance and polymorphism that aims to make code more extensib ...
July 26, 2012
Using private partial classes to hide implementation details of an interface. Workaround for package level protection in C#
I miss very few things from the Java language, one gem I really miss is the package-private accessibility modifier. This was so useful, your IDE colour coded your package classes in another colour so you knew they were not part of the public API. ...
August 26, 2014
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 reason for this? Speed of experi ...
November 5, 2014
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 industry. With access to good data ...
November 5, 2014
The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists
Kaggle [http://www.kaggle.com/] 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 ...