From Data Literacy to Transliteracy Understanding necessary skills for data democratization.
Month: May 2017
Overfit / Underfit – Shaving with Occam’s Razor
Using the principle of Occam's razor to optimize your supervised learning model.
Overfitting / Underfitting – How Well Does Your Model Fit?
Supervised machine learning is inferring a function which will map input variables to an output variable. Let’s unpack this definition a bit with an example. Say that we are a bank that wants to determine to whom we should give a loan. The objective, therefore, is to infer a function that examines a set … Continue reading Overfitting / Underfitting – How Well Does Your Model Fit?
Manage Projects like a Roman Emperor
Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions, because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our action. The impediment to action advances action, what stands in the way becomes the way. Marcus Aurelius was the last of … Continue reading Manage Projects like a Roman Emperor
Meditations on BI and Data Science 