I am proud to announce the release of an application I’ve been working on for the last few months – Visual Analytics. This application is designed to give you a new way to view your Google Analytics data using a range of interactive visualizations, allowing you to get a better understanding of who your users are, how they are getting to your site, and what they are doing when they get there.
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For the last 5 years, data science has been one of the world’s hottest professions, but it is also one of the most poorly defined. This can be seen on any career website, where advertisements for ‘Data Scientist’ positions describe everything from what used to be a simple data analyst role, to technical, PhD-only, research positions working on artificial intelligence or autonomous cars.
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This article is Part VI in a series looking at data science and machine learning by walking through a Kaggle competition. If you have not done so already, you are strongly encouraged to go back and read the earlier parts – (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V).
Continuing on the walkthrough, in this part we build the model that will predict the first booking destination country for each user based on the dataset created in the earlier parts.
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This article on data transformation and feature extraction is Part IV in a series looking at data science and machine learning by walking through a Kaggle competition. If you have not done so already, you are strongly encouraged to go back and read Part I, Part II and Part III.
Continuing on the walkthrough, in this part we focus on getting the data we cleaned in Part III ready for use in the classification algorithm. These steps are often referred to as data transformation and feature extraction.
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This article on understanding the data is Part II in a series looking at data science and machine learning by walking through a Kaggle competition. Part I can be found here.
Continuing on the walkthrough of data science via a Kaggle competition entry, in this part we focus on understanding the data provided for the Airbnb Kaggle competition.
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