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Re:Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty by eanzenberg on Saturday February 04, 2017 @02:41AM (#13566106)
This is literally how you can distinguish actual machine learners from blog readers.

- Deep learn everything!

vs.

- I took at look at the variable distributions, went with a forest model after transforming some of the data.

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Re:Using logistic regression to predict parking difficulty by digitalzombie on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:12AM (#13607425)
> I took at look at the variable distributions, went with a forest model after transforming some of the data.

That's what a statistician does too... I wish statistician word is more in vogue than data science or machine learners. Statistic is the discipline of data.

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