Hi! I'm Vicki Boykis. I'm a consultant in data science and machine learning. I write about making tech less sexy, more bring, and anything adjacent to tech that the mainstream media isn't covering
Introduction Simple linear regression: reminder Principle Equation Interpretations of coefficients \(\widehat\beta\) Significance of the relationship Correlation does not imply causation Conditions of...
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Discussing the book “Big Data Girl” by Fred Wordie and Santiago Taberna.
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The TorchVision datasets subpackage is a convenient utility for accessing well-known public image and video datasets. You can use these tools to start training new computer vision models very quickly....
The np.any() function tests whether any element in a NumPy array evaluates to true: np.any(np.array([[1, 0], [0, 0]])) # Expected result # True The input can have any shape and the data type does not ...
Data Structures and algorithms are key to clearing multiple placement tests as well as for competitive programming. A list of important data structures are listed below: Array Linked list Stacks Queue...
Face Detection is one of the most popular mini-projects a beginner at ML (Machine Learning) can go for one such project is Basic face detection using Haar Cascade Algorithm. What is Haar Cascade? Haar...
I had a kid at the start of the year. Hold for applause Well, not me personally, but my wife did. I only tell you this in order to tell you that I took a picture of my wife every week that she was pre...
I told myself I wouldn’t do it again. The last time nearly broke me. And yet, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Against my better judgement, I did another sandwich data science proj...
This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast walks through how to handle...
This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast walks through how to use sp...
I’m evaluating whether or not I should move this blog to another CMS platform so I can start building a community around it like it was before. Right now this blog runs on Hugo and AWS Amplify and it’...
I shut Neural Market Trends down on the last day of August thinking it was going to be for good. Things have changed on my end and I’m thinking of restarting this site. I’m thinking of moving back to ...