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How to Master the Popular DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm for Machine Learning

Overview DBSCAN clustering is an underrated yet super useful clustering algorithm for unsupervised learning problems Learn how DBSCAN clustering works,…

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Square waves and cobwebs

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post. In that post we looked at iterates of the function f(x) = exp(…

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Surface of revolution with minimum area

Suppose you’re given two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) with y1 and y2 positive. Find the smooth positive curve…

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Sinc approximation

If a function is smooth and has thin tails, it can be well approximated by sinc functions. These approximations are…

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Probability that a cubic has two turning points

Most cubic polynomials with real coefficients have two turning points, a local maximum and a local minimum. But how do…

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Lobatto integration

A basic idea in numerical integration is that if a method integrates polynomials exactly, it should do well on polynomial-like…

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Logistic trajectories

This post is a follow-on to the post on how to make the logistic bifurcation diagram below. That post plotting…

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Advantages of redundant coordinates

Barycentric coordinates make some things much simpler. For example, the coordinates of the three vertices are (1, 0, 0), (0,…

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Predicting environmental carcinogens with logistic regression, knn, gradient boosting and molecular fingerprinting

Predicting environmental carcinogens with logistic regression, knn, gradient boosting and molecular fingerprintingBalancing imbalanced data, exploring accuracy metrics, and an introduction…

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Here’s how you can accelerate your Data Science on GPU

Here’s how you can accelerate your Data Science on GPUGeorge SeifBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJul 3Data Scientists need computing power. Whether you’re processing a big…

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“Where today?” — Planning my Singapore trip with clusters

“Where today?” — Planning my Singapore trip with clustersOutlining travel plans with R, k-medoids and Google MapsJuan De Dios SantosBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJul 1Planning is not easy.…

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Linear Algebra. Points matching with SVD in 3D space

Linear Algebra. Points matching with SVD in 3D spaceAndrey NikishaevBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 30ProblemWe need to find best rotation & translation params between two…

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Suicide in the 21st Century (Part 2)

If you didn’t catch part 1 you can find it below:Suicide in the 21st Century (Part 1)Suicide is not contagious,…

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An overview of different unsupervised learning techniques

Well, there are several ways like cross-validation, information criteria, the information theoretic jump method, the silhouette method, and the G-means…

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Mobility Data, Feature Engineering and Hierarchical Clustering

One concept that beautifully captures the level of randomness in a sequence of events is found in the domain of…

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When Machine Learning Solutions Are Not Possible!

When Machine Learning Solutions Are Not Possible!Five Scenarios Every Data Scientist Should Consider before Proposing Machine Learning Solutions. Rasoul BanaeeyanBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun…

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Best clustering algorithms for anomaly detection

How to use it?”Now we have the clusters…How can we detect anomalies in the test data?The approach I’ve followed to classify…

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SVM: Feature Selection and Kernels

(Source: https://towardsdatascience. com/support-vector-machine-vs-logistic-regression-94cc2975433f)SVM: Feature Selection and KernelsPier Paolo IppolitoBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 2A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a supervised machine learning algorithm that…

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