Tags: lda, probability, topic modeling
Categories: Data Science, Mathematics,
The cosine similarity is a useful distance measure for comparing NLP document vectors, but should not be used with probability distributions.
Categories: Coding, Shell Scripting,
I demonstrate how to use gztool and SQLite to provide near random access to large gzip files, and enable querying by fields of interest.
Categories: Data Science,
I discovered that some demo versions of pirated slot games produce artificially high RTPs to inspire overconfidence within potential customers.
Tags: gambling, python, selenium, web scraping
Categories: Data Science,
I used Selenium to play demo versions of slots online, record the results over many spins, and estimate the distribution of returns. It was a lot of fun!
Tags: beautifulsoup, jupyter, python, web scraping
Categories: Coding, Data Science,
I discuss a web scraping project I took on, inspired by a blog post by Jesse Steinweg-Woods. He took on Indeed.com - I take on Monster.com!