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A demonstration of the law of the flowering plants

History of data science

The day a flower blooms is one of the earliest phenomena studied with systematic data collection and analysis. The prediction rule developed nearly three centuries ago is…

Jonathan Auerbach

Using ‘basket complementarity’ to make product recommendations

Market basket analysis

Recommendation systems

Complementarity

Purchase suggestions – e.g., “if you are buying that, you might also want this” – are, to a large extent, informed by the concept of complementarity: that certain products…

Pulling patterns out of data with a graph

Data management

Dimension reduction

Large volumes of data are pouring in every day from scientific experiments, so much so that it is now commonplace to perform dimension reduction in order to reduce a large…

Andrew Saydjari

Determining the best way to route drivers for ridesharing via reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning

A/B testing is often used to evaluate the impact of design ‘treatments’ — for example, are people who see advert A more likely to buy something than those who see advert B?…