A neuron is a single node within a neural network. By analogy with neurons within the brain we can think of a neuron “firing” in response to an input trigger, and we can think of machine learning as the process of training the neuron to recognise that input trigger.
Tag Archives: Predictive Modelling
Prepping Data
Most of the work associated with building a predictive model is associated with either performance tuning or data prepping.
I’m almost half way through prepping some data. It’s not necessary to script this but a script allows me to adjust the data preparation in the future and more importantly to document the sequence of steps that I have taken.
A Trivial Neural Network
I have been investigating the use of logistic regression to model image pixel data. Now I want to take a look at the use of neural networks. In this post I am going to build the simplest possible neural network and compare it against a simple logistic regression.
Logistic Regression pt. 2
Logistic Regression pt.1
In a recent post I created a table that contained two classes of data: images that represent either the handwritten digit ‘5’ or the digit ‘6’. In this post I’ll model the data using logistic regression. I will also take the opportunity to look at the role of training and test datasets, and to highlight the distinction between testing and validation.
Fives and Sixes
In my last post I was able to successfully re-orient a set of pixel data to reconstruct images of handwritten digits. SInce version 12 of JMP we have been able to create expression table columns that can contain images. That’s a logical location to store my newly revealed images:
Performance Profiling
In my last post I illustrated the performance boost generated by using matrix operations to conduct least squares regression calculations. Matrices by their nature require numerical data. So what about handling a categorical predictor variable? To do this it’s necessary to create dummy variables – separate variables for each unique level of the predictor variable.
Regression in Matrix Form
I’m working on some predictive modelling projects and I need to iteratively compute R2 statistics over 100’s of variables. Each time I do the calculations I need to go and have an extended coffee break – and I’m starting to buzz with too much caffeine so I thought I would look to see whether I could make my code more efficient!