Tag: statistics
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Baby #4, Homeschool
So, 2018 is here – what?!? The past 2+ years have flown by, with two job changes, another baby, and our fourth (and last) baby on the way in March! Also we have embarked upon the great journey (to insanity) of schooling our children at home. I’m currently working on my next professional endeavor, which…
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Recommendation Techniques
I’m in the process of reading and working along with Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran. The book (so far) presents applied statistics through the lens of Big Data (“Web 2.0” as the book, published 2007, so quaintly refers to). The first two recommendation techniques covered use Euclidean Distance and Pearson Correlation to determine the similarity…