In today's post, we document our submission to the recent Kaggle competition aimed at predicting the category of San Francisco crimes, given only their time and location of occurrence. As a reminder, Kaggle is a site where one can compete with...

In today's post, we document our efforts at applying a gradient boosted trees model to forecast bike sharing demand -- a problem posed in a recent Kagglecompetition. For those not familiar, Kaggle is a site where one can compete with other data...

In this post, we provide a quick overview of the data and science of measles spread. Making use of python (code provided) we extract from a CDC data set the 2012 youth vaccination rate for each USA state -- see figure below. To aid in the...

A guest post, contributed by Damien Ramunno-Johnson (LinkedIn, bio-sketch) Follow @efavdb Follow us on twitter for new submission alerts! Introduction The ability to identify faces is a skill that people develop very early in life and can apply...

A guest post, contributed by Damien Ramunno-Johnson (LinkedIn, bio-sketch) Follow @efavdb Follow us on twitter for new submission alerts! Introduction Wearable sensors have become increasingly popular over the last few years with the success of...