Binary Classification Case Study

Note: The code here is from Jason Brownlee's machine_learning_mastery_with_python book. It's slightly updated and documented for my educational purpose.

You can get the data set from: [Sonar Mines vs Rocks dataset](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Connectionist+Bench+(Sonar,+Mines+vs.+Rocks)

The file "sonar.mines ...

Parkinson’s disease predictor

Parkinson's disease itself is a long-term disorder of the nervous system that affects many aspects of a person's mobility over time. It's characterized by shaking, slowed movement, rigidity, dementia, and depression. In 2013, some 53 million people were diagnosed with it, mostly men. Other famous personalities affected ...

Character Recognition (similar to what USPS uses)

Even though the United States Postal Service, as an organization, was formed in 1971, it traces its roots back to the Post Office Department, an organization formed in 1792 by President Benjamin Franklin. It later evolved into a cabinet-level department in 1872, before finally being transformed into the USPS we ...

Cohort Analysis

Cohort is a group of people who do something common. The grouping can occur by time period and based on the actions the users take. For example, one cohort can include all the people who signed up for your service in January of 2016 or all the customers who purchased ...

Healthcare (Accelerometer data) case study

Human activity monitoring is a growing field within data science. It has practical use within the healthcare industry, particular with tracking the elderly to make sure they don't end up doing things which might cause them to hurt themselves. Governments are also very interested in it do that they ...

Beginner's guide to learning Data Science

Learning anything new can be quite daunting. But, with some determination and time, almost anything can be learnt.

Two ways to learn Data Science

There are two ways to learn anything new - Top down approach and bottoms up approach.

Data Science is no different. If you follow the bottoms up ...