Posted on May 29, 2011
Musings from a few weeks of data mining
Ok, I’m still no expert data miner by a large margin, but I’ve learned a LOT in just a few weeks of playing with the Heritage Health Prize data. The folks on the Kaggle/HHP Chat Board are pretty… Read More
Posted on May 12, 2011
Dayton Technology Landscape Conference
Technology First is a local IT Trade Group, and their second annual “Technology Landscape Conference” was yesterday, so I dutifully (duty = I’m dating their intern) attended. Ok, so there was some more duty… one of the companies… Read More
Posted on May 9, 2011
Heritage Health Prize: On Algorithms, Rights, Patents and Patients
So my goal for the weekend was to submit an entry to the Heritage Health Prize. It took me until Monday night (have to work off-hours, this isn’t a work-sponsored event), but our team (the Data Monkeys) (with… Read More
Posted on May 4, 2011
Mini Star Trekkin’
We had quite the celebration down in Louisville this past weekend for the KY Derby Mini Marathon. Kory, Heather, Jessica, Emily, Mike, Jackie, Maureen, and I all got together at the start line to run the little guy… Read More