Ryan Swanstrom

Tag: algorithms

  • Analytics vs Data Science

    Analytics vs Data Science

    The lines between analytics and data science can definitely be very blurry. Different companies might call the same position by two different names, but at their core, they do have some differences. Below is an infographic from the faculty of the Online MS in Analytics at American University. I think the infographic is accurate. In…

  • Yinyang K-Means: A Drop-In Replacement of the Classic K-Means

    This week; Yufei Ding, Yue Zhao, Xipeng Shen, Madanlal Musuvathi, and Todd Mytkowicz will be presenting Yinyang K-means at the 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning. The algorithm guarantees the same results as traditional K-means, but it produces results with an order of magnitude higher performance. An abstract of the paper and a PDF download…

  • Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News

    Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News. The discussion below the link is also very good. If you are curious, here are the 10 algorithms, and the paper is displayed below. C4.5 k-Means SVM Apriori EM PageRank AdaBoost kNN Naive Bayes CART

  • 6 Machine Learning Algorithms

    6 Machine Learning Algorithms

  • More Free Courses from Stanford

    Also this spring, Stanford will be offering two more courses that might benefit a person learning data science. Probabilistic Graphical Models – combining ideas from statistics, probability, and computer science to solve really hard problems…sounds neat Natural Language Processing (NLP) – performing algorithms on human language and strings If you feel these 2 classes might…

  • Did You Miss Strata 2012?

    The Strata Conference Making Data Work for 2012 just finished up. If you (like me) were unable to attend the conference, you may have missed out on some of the networking and excitement of actually being at the conference, but you can still glean some knowledge from the videos. Steve Schoettler “Learning Analytics” This is…

  • What is a data scientist?

    If I am going to create a blog about becoming a data scientist, I must at least provide some type of definition.  One of the best definitions I have read is by Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bit.ly, A data scientist is someone who can obtain, scrub, explore, model and interpret data, blending hacking, statistics,…