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The good ol’ Titanic Kaggle Competition Part 1
It’s been over two months since I finished the Data Science certificate program through the University of Washington. Since then I’ve been trying to figure out my next step. The annoying thing about...
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Titanic Kaggle Competition Part 2
Logistic Regression Continued I’m finally getting back to tackling the Titanic competition. In my last entry, I had started with some basic models (only females live, only 1st and 2nd class females...
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Creating web apps with Shiny – reactive graph of average US household income...
I finally finished my first Shiny application! You can click this link to check it out. Below is a screenshot of what it looks like. I got all the data from the United States Census Bureau website....
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How to host your Shiny app on Amazon EC2 for Mac OSX
In a previous post I had mentioned that I would provide a hosting guide for Shiny applications so other people wouldn’t have to suffer through all the same issues I did when trying to do this. Just...
View ArticleUsing the httr package to retrieve data from apis in R
For a project I’m working on, I needed to access residential electricity rates and associated coordinate information (lat/long) for locations in the US. After a little searching, I found that data.gov...
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Beating the benchmark for the Kaggle Otto Group Product Classification...
Two days ago, Kaggle began a new competition called the Otto Group Product Classification Challenge. In this competition, participants are challenged to create a model to correctly classify products...
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Benchmarking R/RRO in OSX and Ubuntu on the cloud
** This is a modified version of a previous R benchmark that was done back in 2011. Click this link to see the original post. After using R for quite some time, you get to know a little bit about its...
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Comparing Tree-Based Classification Methods via the Kaggle Otto Competition
In this post, I’m going to be looking at the progressive performance of different tree-based classification methods in R, using the Kaggle Otto Group Product Classification Challenge as an example....
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