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Eight Portions


Ryan's personal blog on data science, personal projects, and various related topics

Eight Portions


Ryan's personal blog on data science, personal projects, and various related topics

Look before you scrape

Finding hidden APIs through client-side XHR monitoring

Posted on February 11, 2018

Web scraping is frequently used when no suitable public data can be found in a structured format. Unstructured or semi-structured data served on static websites or web applications can be scraped programmatically and structured for analysis. But before reaching for... [Read More]

Kaggle competition rewards

Do larger competition rewards increase participation?

Posted on January 14, 2018

Kaggle is a popular online platform for data science competitions. Competition hosts can post their data online, and data scientist from around the world compete to build the best algorithm for the host’s needs. [Read More]

Adversarial advising

Reverse engineering machine learning models for advice

Posted on October 21, 2017

Machine learning models are frequently used to make predictions about a target variable, such as the sales price of a home. However, we can use a fitted model to do much more than to predict – by carefully inspecting a... [Read More]

Company vectors

Learning high dimensional company representations

Posted on February 12, 2017

In this post I introduce the Company Vector, a distributed representation of a company’s core business activities. Company vectors are learned from business descriptions found in public SEC 10-K filings using an unsupervised learning algorithm called the Paragraph Vector. The... [Read More]

From GitHub Pages to GitLab Pages

Static website hosting migration

Posted on August 21, 2016

Last week I decided to migrate this blog, Eight Portions, from GitHub Pages to GitLab Pages for hosting service. My experience to-date has been net positive: GitLab Pages offers more flexibility and control over your site than does GitHub Pages,... [Read More]
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