Monthly Archives: May 2009

Warning: If you have a vested interest in what I do after I graduate (you know who you are; if you’re not sure if this applies to you, then it doesn’t) or you don’t have the stomach for the inherently … Continue reading →

In line with a previous post I decided to have some more fun with names. I used the census names data to generate 200 names by taking a random first name and a random last name and combining them. The … Continue reading →

Every now and then someone (you know who you are) asks if the feature vectors one passes into LDA should be vectors of word counts (i.e., vectors of non-negative integers) or vectors of word presence/absence (i.e., vectors of binary values). … Continue reading →