I have not been good about updating my blog. This year I want to try to be better at this. Throughout the year, I have been taking on small projects. During the school year, I attempted to complete two courses. These courses were by Brandon Rohrer, whose courses you can find here. The first one was a decision tree which predicted arrival times of the subway in Boston.

An early version of the decision tree

I achieved very good results in the end with a pretty accurate model. I ran into a problem because I live in the central time zone and the data was in eastern time the model didn’t learn properly that is the decision tree pictured here. The second course I took was a polynomial classifier that, when given the name of a dog breed, gives similarly sized dog breeds.

A visualization of the classifier