I’ve added a worked R example of the non-convexity, with respect to model parameters, of square loss of a sigmoid-derived prediction here. This is finishing an example for our Python note “Why not Square Error for Classification?”. Reading that note will give a usable context and background for this diagram. […]
Win Vector LLC has been developing and delivering a lot of “statistics, machine learning, and data science for engineers” intensives in the past few years. These are bootcamps, or workshops, designed to help software engineers become more comfortable with machine learning and artificial intelligence tools. The current thinking is: not […]
Many data science projects and presentations are needlessly derailed by not having set shared business relevant quantitative expectations early on (for some advice see Setting expectations in data science projects). One of the most common issues is the common layman expectation of “perfect prediction” from classification projects. It is important […]