What is a Geocache? You may have heard about Bayesian statistics, but have you heard of Geocaching? In this post I’ll explain to you how my friend Drew Millane and I designed a Bayesian model to e...

Hyperparameters and How to Find Them The goal of training a machine learning model is to develop a model that can accurately predict an outcome by learning the relationships between the variable...

What is Optimization Optimization is something that you perform every day. GPS systems try to optimize your drive so that you get there faster. When you haggle the price of something, you are tr...

Corn Corn Corn For this post, I’d like to wrap up a big project I’ve been working on for the past several weeks working with soil data from my home state of Iowa. As I’ve gone along the process, I...

Welcome to Some Dirty Data What could possibly set Iowa apart from other states that helps it grow so much corn? A mystery to some, a trade secret to others; regardless of what you want to call it ...

August 16, 2008 is a very significant day in my life. To be perfectly candid with you, I can’t actually remember everything I did that day. But the fact of the matter is I probably spent that whole...

So, you just got the keys to your own brand new website, but the automated domain names that your website hosting service is giving you just aren’t quite cutting it. I understand, and I am here to ...