Clustering Pumps [mlw4]

This is the fourth and last assignment of Machine Learning for Data Analysis by Wesleyan University on Coursera. My assignment diverges quite a bit from the approach taken by the instructor since I wanted to have only three clusters to determine pumps functionality (functional, functional needs repair, and

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Shrinking pumps? [mlw3]

This is the third assignment of the Machine Learning for Data Analysis by Wesleyan University on Coursera. I applied least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) to the DrivenData data set pumpItUp. LASSO is a technique which does variable selection shrinking the ‘useless’ coefficients (i.e., variables) toward zero. Applying this method

The forest and the pump! [mlw2]

The random forest algorithm is the topic of the second assignment of Machine Learning for Data Analysis by Wesleyan University on Coursera. This assignment extends the previous one because besides from using random forest instead of decision trees I included more variables than the previous assignment. In this analysis I included also

Pump it up with a decision tree [mlw1]

This post is about the first assignment of Machine Learning for Data Analysis by Wesleyan University on Coursera. In the past month I have tried to mine the dataset of the pumpItUp challenge on DrivenData. The challenge requires

Making up for univariate [DAI IVb]

This post is an extension of this one, which was (supposed to be) the final post of the coursera course ‘data analysis and interpretation’. This current post extends or complements the previous one because in that assignment I forgot to include univariate graphs in my plot. Since I only had a bivariate graph, the other reviewers failed my assignment. I was quite disappointed by their reaction, but I understood their motives. If univariate graphs get points and the absence thereof does not, I was righteously failed. Therefore, in this post I try to fix my previous mistake including three univariate graphs. The conclusion one can gather from these graphs remains unchanged and one should

Citations Network

This post describes the visualisation of a social network I made for a Coursera course on Data Visualisation. For this specific assignment I opted for gathering data on my own rather than using the datasets provided by the course instructor. I wanted to gather the data myself to try to visualise ‘real’ data. With real data I mean data that I try to scrape from the web and visualise. Basically with ‘real’ data I mean what other people call dirty data (i.e. data that is not been processed or polished before use). The question was also whether I could

Loading data and frequencies [DAI -II]

Second assignment for the Coursera Data Management and Visualization ‘challenge’ (here is the introduction). I rename the data management and visualization course to challenge since it has been a bit challenging to keep up with the weekly deadlines (and this is only the second week). But I am happy I am still close to the deadline when submitting the assignments. The goal of this second assignment is to load the data set and explore it by means of some descriptive statistics. Below I adapted the sample text for this assignment.

Data Analysis and Interpretation I

To keep digging into data and analysis I enrolled into a Coursera specialization about Data Analysis and Interpretation by the Wesleyan University. Since part of the course requires to 1) write blog posts about analysis performed during the course and 2) that the submissions have deadline, I thought it was a good way to keep to a deadline and analyze some old data that I have collected and never looked at. Below is a short description of the data set I would like to analyze.