Category Archives: Visualisation

Segmented Regression

I’m sure there is a more technically correct term for this: I use the phrase segmented regression to describe the process whereby I select a segment of data within a curve and build a regression model for just that segment.

click on the image to see an animated view
click on the image to see an animated view

I have some code to aid the process.  The code illustrates how to perform regression on-the-fly as well as how to utilise the MouseTrap function to handle mouse movement events.

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Flippin’ Images

My last post contained a picture of a window that contained a grid of images.  This was a randomly generated array of images based on an extract from the MNIST dataset.  This database contains over 60,000 samples of handwritten digits.

However, my pixel data was disoriented and the images looked more like hieroglyphs.  Fortunately JMP understands an image as an ‘object’, and allows a variety of transformations to be applied to it, including flipping and rotating.

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Visualising Machine Learning Pt. 2

Where is the “learning” in machine learning?  The problem with machine learning algorithms is that they yield a final solution without giving you a sense of the learning process.  So I’ve implemented an interactive version of a perceptron learning algorithm.  To run the algorithm I need lenearly separable data – hence the posts from the previous weeks.  Now I can use that as the basis for visualising the machine learning steps.  (more…)

Visualising Machine Learning pt.1

My last two posts have been talking creating linearly separable data.  Hopefully you found some of the features interesting – for example, the idea of creating interactivity using grab handles.  But I never really gave a purpose to what I was doing: I wanted to write some machine learning code – specifically a perceptron learning algorithm – and to test the code I needed to create some data on which it could act.  (more…)