Recently I finished building an overclocked hexacore PC with 128 GB RAM for high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning applications. Here’s a description of how I chose components and how it all fits together.
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Santander Product Recommendation Competition Solution
Solution Details (Top 1.1%) [R]
Combating the Opioid Epidemic with Machine Learning
Can we save live with machine learning? [R]
Over the past 15 years, deaths from prescription opiates have quadrupled, but so has the amount of opiates prescribed. This massive increase in prescription rates has occurred while the levels of pain experienced by Americans has remain largely unchanged. Intuitively it follows that unneccessary prescriptions potentially play a significant role...
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Making A Beautiful Scatter Plot using R
Step-by-step process for customizing a scatter plot in ggplot2 [R]
This is a step-by-step breakdown of my thought process for building a nice looking scatter plot using ggplot2 in R. This analysis uses a dataset containing information on every play in the 2015-2016 NFL football season found here on Kaggle. This season culminated in Super Bowl L in which the...
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