October 2014 – Ultraviolet Analytics

30 Oct, 2014

Kaggle Titanic Competition Part I – Intro

Dave2017-01-30T13:56:00-08:00October 30th, 2014|1 Comment

In case you haven't heard of Kaggle, it's a data science competition site where companies/organizations provide data sets relevant to a problem they're facing and anyone can attempt to build predictive models for the data set. The teams that best predict the data are rewarded with fame and fortune (or relatively minor sums of money compared to the value they provide, but that's another post). Some competitions are for learning, some just for fun, and some for the $$$. One of the current competitions involves data on the passengers of the Titanic. The goal is to attempt to determine [...]

28 Oct, 2014

Automated Antenna Design with Machine Learning

Dave2017-01-30T11:40:42-08:00October 28th, 2014|0 Comments

Welcome to the Ultraviolet Analytics blog! This will be a sounding board for things we're working on, things we find interesting and things we want to share. This will typically cover data science topics, but I won't rule out an occasional cat video (what's the point of a blog if you can't post cat videos from time to time). I'd like to open this blog with one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I learned about this back in college (GO WOLFPACK!) and the underlying concept has been one of the driving forces behind my fascination with machine [...]