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Re:Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available? by vs2370 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:09AM (#11946179)
to add, there is also training data available in form of people who have committed shootings or have any crime record. its then just about feature selection that could prove some causation or correlation
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Re:Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available? by jdc0589 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:53AM (#11946616)
what do you mean by "training data"?
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Re:Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available? by vs2370 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @12:14PM (#11946803)
in machine learning we could use some supervised technique if we have training data instead of unsupervised. sorry for not being clear
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Re:Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available? by jdc0589 on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:11AM (#11970354)
what I thought, just making sure.
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