Gilad Barash, data scientist at Dstillery came to Metis to share about his work in Ad Tech on Tuesday 2/23. It was a comprehensive and technical overview of data science in the online advertising space. Here are my notes:
Feb 23, 2016Google hasn’t had a tech talk in NYC for a while now, but I was able to snag a spot to the hottest Meetup in town. Hosted at the Google office in Chelsea, Sidewalk Labs CTO Craig Nevill-Manning and COO Anand Babu spoke about the venture’s vision to use technology for good by improving the cities we live in. Here are some of my notes.
Feb 23, 2016This is our first project at Metis. Assigned at the first day of class and due on the same Friday, we work in groups to help WomenTechWomenYes raise funds and promote awareness of women in technology. Here’s part 1 of my analysis.
Feb 22, 2016Week 5 at Metis and we’re getting into the meat and potatoes of supervised machine learning. Here’s a recap
Feb 12, 2016I learn best by doing and teaching. And while Python has some excellent packages available for linear regression (like Statsmodels or Scikit-learn), I wanted to understand the intuition behind ordinary least squares (OLS) linear regression. How is the best fit found? How do you actually implement batch gradient descent?
Feb 09, 2016