Best Albums of ****
I used to listen to every new album to hit the streets. But after kids and getting old and lazy, I’m content delegating music discovery to the pros at Pitchfork and Boomkat who publish annual lists of their favorite albums. One thing these lists don’t have is a quick way to listen to all these albums, which is why I created my own webpages with embedded Spotify players.
Degrees That Pay You Back
Like Wu-Tang said, cash rules everything around me, so what’s a liberal arts major like me gotta do? Flip the script and use k-means clustering to find how to get that CREAM!
Predicting Credit Card Approvals
What exactly goes on in the mind of an actuary? Nothing good, I’m sure, but at least with logistic regression, we can peek under the hood.
Forecasting Food Prices
I pity the fool who gets between me and my potato. Being able to forecast food prices helps to anticipate what I need to do to make sure I get my potatoes.
Do Left-Handed People Really Die Young?
I hope not, because my younger daughter is left handed … and clumsy. To find the answer to this, I consulted Bayesian statistics.
Finding Movie Similarity from Plot Summaries
How are the movies 2001 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind similar? Is it because they’re both sci-fi? Nah, let’s use NLP and clustering to really find out!
TV, Halftime Shows, and the Big Game
The Superbowl is a great way for musicians to get exposure in front of the largest TV audience in the U.S. So, who is the all-time king/queen of the halftime show?
Predict Taxi Fares with Random Forests
Maybe if Robert Deniro’s character Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver took online classes on random forests and regression trees to find where to get the best fares and tips, he wouldn’t have gone crazy.
