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ParKomfort: Safe Parking Recommendation

Finding a street parking spot during peak hours is always headache due to availability, price and safety concerns. The ideal parking spot would provide sense of comfort and safety.

Current parking spot-finding products (Parkopedia and ParkMobile) offer only location and price data with no regard for crime or policing. Users...

Use Spark and ML to predict customer churn

customer churn

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What is customer churn? Why it is important?

As defined in Merriam-Webster, “customer churn” , in a business sense, is a regular, quantifiable process or rate of change that occurs over a period of time, due...

Case study: hypothesis testing and strategy optimization

This case study is one of the take-home assignment provided by Starbucks for their job candidates. It is a great example of 1) hypothesis testing and 2) machine learning in business analytics. More specifically, hypothesis testing was performed to evaluate data gathered from A/B testing, and determine levels of significance...

Deep reinforcement learning in operating OpenAI.gym lunar lander

The purpose of this project is to explore the power of reinforcement learning in training a simulated Lander agent to land on the moon surface. The implementation of the agent utilized function approximations to adjust the weights of underlying models during training phase, instead of using tabular approaches typically for...

Disaster response classifier

This project is aimed at constructing a web-based pipeline to classify messages potentially related to disaster response. If related, the message is further classified into an individual category, such as ‘Request’, ‘Food’, ‘Water’, etc. This web-based application and underlying machine learning classifier can facilitate disaster response task by deciding whether...