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Automating away the "elbow method"

written by Roni Kobrosly on 2018-09-24 | tags: machine learning open source

Sometimes when you're tuning a parameter in a machine learning, you end up needing to look at something like a scree plot to determine the best parameter value. It feels annoying and subjective. Here's a simple way to automate this away.

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Visualizing socioeconomic disadvantage across US counties

written by Roni Kobrosly on 2014-12-17 | tags: human data machine learning

When we create maps to view the spatial variation of socioeconomic status, we are typically only viewing the variation of one factor at a time (e.g. just income or just unemployment rate). I thought it would be useful to create and visualize a summary score of overall "socioeconomic disadvantage" from many socioeconomic indicators.

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