Jun 8, 2018

The goal of week 2 of #SoDS18 is to narrow down all of the plans made during the brainstorming sessions from week 1 and plan out how to accomplish those goals. I’ve decided to narrow it down to three main goals to be completed over the 3 months of #SoDS18. These goals are: Build an R Shiny app/dashboard Complete a machine learning competition (and implement multiple models) Learn about deep learning and implement a deep learning model I've got my week 2 plan for #SoDS18 done!

Apr 20, 2018

On April 12th, 2018, Charlottesville and the Tom Tom Founders Festival played host to the second annual Applied Machine Learning Conference (AMLCville). I had the fortune to attend AMLCville and listen to talks on a wide range of topics and get to see the amazing ways that machine learning is being used out in the world. AMLCville was split into three different tracks with topic sessions on natural language processing, health care, computer vision, and geospatial analysis.

Dec 20, 2017

The other week I came across some work being done by Botnik and Botnik Studios to create strange new things with machine learning. The creation that caught my eye was a chapter for an entirely new Harry Potter book made using a predictive text algorithm like you might find attached to a cell phone keyboard. By training the algorithm on the text of Harry Potter they were able to produce new dialogue and narration that seemed like the original Harry Potter, but is completely new and bizarre.