Nov 10, 2016

Attendees

• How do you approach a data set?
  • What am I trying to get out of this?
    • General insight - clustering
      • Which attributes are similar?
      • What makes them similar?

Books

• AnIntroductionToStatisticalLearning

• TheElementsOfStatisticalLearning

• In-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos https://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-learning-in-15-hours-of-expert-videos/ Trevor Hastie Robert Tibshirani

David Owen’s Presentation on Linear Classification - He will provide a zipball with his code and presentation

Showed examples with synthetic data set and Fisher Iris Data set

Next Time

• David Owen will finish presentation in about 15-20 minutes. He will wait until next month to send the code

• We will read and discuss chapter 1 of AnIntroductionToStatisticalLearning