Zach

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	location	San Francisco, CA
	age	26
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190 Answers

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21	Obtaining knowledge from a random forest
20	Detecting significant predictors out of 300 independent variables
19	Software needed to scrape data from graph
17	What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon?
14	Algorithms for automatic model selection

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6,939 Reputation

+10	R vs SAS, why is SAS prefered by private companies?
+5	Dimensionality reduction (SVD or PCA) on a large, sparse matrix
+5	Cross-validating time-series analysis
+5	Bootstrapping estimates of out-of-sample error

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47 Questions

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35	Data APIs/feeds available as packages in R
26	Cloud computing platforms for machine learning
12	Fitting an ARIMAX model with regularization or penalization (e.g. with the lasso, elastic net, or ridge regression)
12	Sites for predictive modeling competitions
12	Why bother with low rank approximations?

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132 r × 104	47 data-visualization × 17
98 time-series × 50	44 model-selection × 10
84 machine-learning × 42	41 stepwise-regression × 3
65 regression × 33	39 random-forest × 10
58 forecasting × 26	39 feature-selection × 9

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