This chapter covers linear regression. The case study is predicting page views for web sites given unique visitors, whether the… Read more
Month: November 2012
Machine Learning for Hackers, Chapter 4
This chapter explains how to create a ranking algorithm to prioritize email messages in your inbox. The authors mention Google… Read more
Simulating the Monty Hall Problem
Back in 1990, the following question was posed to PARADE magazine columnist, Marilyn Vos Savant (once holder of the Guinness World Record for highest… Read more
Machine Learning for Hackers, Chapter 3
In this chapter you build a naïve Bayes classifier to classify an email as spam or not spam (or “ham”… Read more
Machine Learning for Hackers, Chapter 2
Chapter 2 of Machine Learning for Hackers is called Data Exploration. It explains means, medians, quartiles, variance, histograms, scatterplots, things… Read more
Machine Learning for Hackers, Chapter 1
I’ve started working through the book, Machine Learning for Hackers, and decided I would document what I learned or found… Read more