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Another busy week working with scikit-learn! Really starting to come together I think! I was able to continue to iterate on the  Breast Cancer Data tutorial we were assigned as well as begin to work on writing some additional methods … Continue reading →

What a short, but busy week! I really did a deep dive into SciKit Learn and learned so much. I worked with student data to train and test a model predicting student success at a school based on data from … Continue reading →

This week we were close to completing the Breast cancer detection program we met as a group to complete it. We imported the packages and we uploaded the dataset correctly. We used”Drop” to delete the “Id” from the dataset. We  … Continue reading →

As we start this short second week; the switch team individuals start their research on their chosen projects.  First thing i started with to begging with my project is to understand the point of it as i read the literature … Continue reading →

During this week, I learned more about machine learning and how to apply the research. My cohort has helped me so much with the tutorials and learning activities. I also enjoyed the different presentations. During Christina Crawford’s presentation we were … Continue reading →

This week has been exciting! The first thing I did was to try to write the program to recreate the results from Vishabh Goel’s article Building a Simple Machine Learning Model on Breast Cancer Data (Sept. 29, 2018).  Thanks to … Continue reading →

Everything starting clicking for me this week.  I really began understanding the bigger picture of the SWITCH Project and its potential impact in the community it is trying to serve.   For a while I struggled with the notion with the … Continue reading →

This week’s blog is about the math beyond the magic. Ada Lovelace said that anything can be explained in an equation, so I read. I found this to be true in science and if data science is a science, it … Continue reading →

Nothing like a cup of python in the morning. This week I dipped my toes back into the machine learning pool. My first program involved a breast cancer dataset created by Dr. William H. Wolberg from the University of Wisconsin. … Continue reading →

Young Scholars Orientation I enjoyed sitting in with the young scholars that were selected for the research program. The students were very enthusiastic about the opportunity, and eager to share their interests and career goals. Through an ice breaker activity … Continue reading →