The Case of the 500-Mile Email | April 3, 2025 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Data-Science, Best-Practices |
You need a checklist | December 19, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Development, Resources |
Prevent Hallucination with Reflection | December 18, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | AI, LLMs, Prompt-Engineering |
An (Incomplete) Guide to AI Coding Assistants and Agents (Winter 2024) | November 18, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | AI, LLMs, Coding-Tools |
Unlock 10x Better AI Responses with This Simple Prompt Technique | October 23, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | AI, LLMs, Prompt-Engineering |
Hard Drives for your Homelab: beyond $/TB | September 9, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Data-Science, Case-Studies |
caretEnsemble 4.0 | August 20, 2024 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, R-Packages, ML, Cross-Validation |
Don't Overfit II - My First Place Solution | May 8, 2019 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, ML, Data-Science, Kaggle |
From Ecology to Data Science | March 12, 2019 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Data-Science, ML, Career-Insights, Interviews |
Data Scientist Spotlight | February 19, 2019 | Thomas Dinsmore | Data-Science, Best-Practices, ML, Model-Evaluation |
Allstate Claims Severity - My Winning Approach | December 13, 2016 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, ML, Cross-Validation, Model-Evaluation, Data-Science, Kaggle |
A Brief Hiatus | October 3, 2015 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Blog |
Caretensemble 1.0 on Cran | January 16, 2015 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, R-Packages |
Down-sampling in Logistic Regression | August 20, 2013 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Statistics, ML, Data-Science |
For Faster R on a Mac, Use Veclib | July 10, 2013 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Performance |
Caretensemble Classification Example | March 17, 2013 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, R-Packages, ML |
New Package for Ensembling R Models | March 13, 2013 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, ML, R-Packages |
Time Series Cross-validation 5 | January 24, 2013 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, R-Packages, Cross-Validation, Time-Series |
Error Metrics for Multi-class Problems in R: Beyond Accuracy and Kappa | July 6, 2012 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, R-Packages, Cross-Validation, ML |
Time Series Cross-validation 4: Forecasting the S&P 500 | June 11, 2012 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
My First R Package: Parallel Differential Evolution | January 23, 2012 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Performance |
Benchmarking Time Series Models | December 29, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML, Archives |
Time Series Cross-validation 3 | December 12, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML, Archives |
Time Series Cross-validation 2 | November 22, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Functional and Parallel Time Series Cross-validation | November 21, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Backtesting Part 4: Random Strategies | October 21, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Strong Correlation With High P-value | October 21, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Statistics, Data-Science |
Backtesting a Simple Stock Trading Strategy: Part 3 | October 17, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Recession Forecasting III: A Better Naive Forecast | September 20, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML, Archives |
Backtesting Part 2: Splits, Dividends, Trading Costs and Log Plots | September 16, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Correlations Among Us Stocks: Is It Really Time to Fire Your Adviser? | September 15, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
Backtesting a Simple Stock Trading Strategy | September 13, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, ML |
25+ More Ways to Bring Data Into R | August 26, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Data-Science |
Because It's Friday: Spurious Correlation Edition | August 26, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Data-Science, Archives |
Graphically Analyzing Variable Interactions in R | August 23, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Data-Science |
Recession Forecasting II: Assessing Hussman's Accuracy | August 22, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series, Archives |
A Pure R Poker Hand Evaluator | August 15, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Tutorials |
Using the Google Prediction API From R | August 10, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, ML, Archives |
Scraping Web Data in R | August 10, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Data-Science |
Forecasting Recessions | August 9, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Cross-Validation, Time-Series |
Parallel Random Forests Using Foreach | July 22, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Case-Studies, ML |
Importing Google News Data to R | July 6, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Time-Series |
Kaggle Competition Walkthrough: Wrapup | June 1, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Case-Studies, Cross-Validation, ML |
Kaggle Competition Walkthrough: Fitting a Model | May 12, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Case-Studies |
Kaggle Competition Walkthrough: Introduction | May 3, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Case-Studies, Cross-Validation, ML |
Parallelizing and Cross-validating Feature Selection in R | April 29, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | R, Case-Studies, Cross-Validation, ML |
Intro | April 23, 2011 | Zach Deane-Mayer | Blog |