After 20 games played, Liverpool are sitting pretty on top of the Premier League with 58 points (out of a possible 60). The only jitter in the campaign so far came in a draw away at Manchester United. I made what I think is a cool graph to put this performance in perspective. I looked…
More on statistics and machine learning
I’m thinking of a client problem right now, and I thought that something that we need to predict can be modelled as a function of a few other things that we will know. Initially I was thinking about it from the machine learning perspective, and my thought process went “this can be modelled as a…
Statistics and machine learning approaches
A couple of years back, I was part of a team that delivered a workshop in machine learning. Given my background, I had been asked to do a half-day session on Regression, and was told that the standard software package being used was the scikit-learn package in python. Both the programming language and the package…
Marketing
I’m in a conversation with a friend on marketing my consulting services and he gave me a most genius piece of advice You can say you do supervised learning instead of saying regressions. Last month I was at this big data conference. Everyone I met said they were into big data or analytics or some…
Numbers and management
I learnt Opeations Research thrice. The first was when I had just finished school and was about to go to IIT. My father had just started on a part-time MBA, and his method of making sure he had learnt something properly was to try and teach it to me. And so, using some old textbook…