Problem! ML algorithms, although their proclaimed effectiveness on predictive accuracy might be suspect, are often the first tool that a data scientist resorts to when tackling a prediction problem. Such an attitude is not the best in my opinion, and ... [Read more...]

Background Back in June, Julia Silge analysed the uncanny X-men comic book series. If, perchance, you are not familiar with her work, check out her blog and Youtube screencasts - invaluable resources for when I want to learn about any new tidyverse pa... [Read more...]

Background Back in June, Julia Silge analysed the uncanny X-men comic book series. If, perchance, you are not familiar with her work, check out her blog and Youtube screencasts - invaluable resources for when I want to learn about any new tidyverse pa... [Read more...]

This is a corrected version of an earlier post on the same topic. This version contains the correct links to the original post, to faciliate discussion via comments. On one of my projects, my team and I were tasked with building a mortgage leads gener... [Read more...]