Hyperparameter Tuning XGBoost with early stopping
Quick walkthrough of hyperparameter tuning in XGBoost
2024
2023
Hyperparameter Tuning LightGBM (incl. early stopping)
Quick walkthrough of hyperparameter tuning in LightGBM
Why you shouldn’t track metrics by calendar months
A quick post on metrics
2019
Talk: The Most Important Models
Basics of linear/logistic regression and random forests
2018
Deep Learning Rules of Thumb
Practical tips for deep learning
Testing Linear Regression Assumptions in Python
Automating assumption testing with a script to perform statistical tests and plot visualizations
Competition: Analyze This! AI Innovation Challenge
The winning script for a local competition on image classification with TensorFlow
2017
Restaurant Recommender
Finding new restaurants based off of review similarity to favorites back home
Streaming Manhattan Traffic with Spark
Visualizing traffic real-time with Spark Streaming
2016
Competition: The Ultimate Student Hunt
9th place submission for a Kaggle style competition on predicting the number of park visitors I did while in grad school
Ancestry Analysis
Using data from Ancestry.com to discover more about my heritage
Data Science Overview
Document I threw together for the FAQ section of the data science subreddit