In a previous post I derived the least squares estimators using basic calculus, algebra, and arithmetic, and also showed how the same results can be achieved using the canned functions in SAS and R or via the matrix programming capabilities offered by ...

In a previous post I discussed the concept of gradient descent.  Given some recent work in the online machine learning course offered at Stanford,  I'm going to extend that discussion with an actual example using R-code  (the actual code...

After a week as SAS Gobal Forum, I've been pretty excited about some of the text mining presentations that I got to see. I couldn't wait to get back to work to at least try something.  After getting home I found a tweet from @imusicmash sharing a post from the ...

# The following code may look rough, but simply paste into R or# a text editor (especially Notepad++) and it will look# much better.# PROGRAM NAME: MACHINE_LEARNING_R# DATE: 4/19/2010# AUTHOR : MATT BOGARD# PURPOSE: BASIC EXAMPLES OF MACHINE LEAR...