Author Archives: calhathcock

INTRODUCTION I have always had a fascination with maps. A well made and detailed map or even globe for that matter just intrigues me on an almost subconscious level. There’s just something special about seeing the interwoven patterns of our world that cannot be seen from a first person point of view. It is notContinue reading “Exploration of North Carolina’s Urban Street Networks”

INTRODUCTION Hello, again! Today, I will be discussing a form of machine learning that I have not tackled before, that being Clustering. Clustering is much different from classification and regression because it is an unsupervised technique. Meaning that the data need not to be labeled. This has its pro’s and con’s. A pro is thatContinue reading “Clustering Netflix Users”

INTRODUCTION Hello, again! Today, I will be exploring the exciting world of Regression! I will be predicting housing prices using the Ames Housing Dataset, provided by Kaggle. I will do this by implementing a simple Linear Regression model using Python and SciKit-Learn. That being said, what exactly is Regression? Regression (in the context of machineContinue reading “Housing Prices Regression”

INTRODUCTION As I progress in my data mining journey, learning and implementing various machine learning models will become a necessity. Of course there are different types of tasks when it comes to modeling but as the title suggests, this post will solely be focused on classification. Classification is a form of machine learning where theContinue reading “Iris Flower Classification”

Introduction Alongside being a full-time student for the past few years, I have been working full-time as a meat cutter within a grocery store. It’s not exactly a passion of mine but it has been a great job with flexible hours while I complete my degree in Computer Science. So when given the task ofContinue reading “World Meat Consumption Analysis”

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Hello World.”