Joel Carlson Data Scientist

Projects and Posts

                    A cross section of things I've been working on...

Galvanize - Week 6

Week 6 of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive - Capstone Ideation

Galvanize - Week 5

Week 5 of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive - Intensity ramps up

Galvanize - Week 4

Week 4 of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive - Non-parametric learners

Training and Tuning an SVC: R vs Python

Comparing and contrasting the methods provided by caret and sklearn for training and tuning predictive models

Galvanize - Week 3

Week 3 of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive - Righting my wrongs with regressions

Exploring Linear Regression Coefficients and Interactions

A look at how to visualize and understand interactions

Galvanize - Week 2

The second week of the Galvanize Data Science Immersive - coin flips, bootstraps, and Bayesian Bandits

Galvanize - Week 1

A short summary of my first week in the 3 month long Galvanize data science immersive program.

Data Science Bootcamps

Thoughts on my decision to attend a data science bootcamp, and my perceptions of the application processes for 3 difference camps.

Exploring the Median Cut Algorithm with R

A look at how the median cut algorithm can extract the dominant colors from an image

How Good is Texture Analysis at Classification?

Let's use the radiomics package to tell a cushion from a couch!

Predict Your Own MLC Errors!

An interactive web interface to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy plans

The Dangers(?) of Improperly Centering and Scaling Your Data

What happens if you center and scale your training and test set data together? Read on to find out!

Introducing radiomics for R

Texture analysis matrices and features

The Complexity of MLC Movement

A few .gifs of the complex movements of MLC leaves

CT Simulation

A fun project simulating the creation of a backprojection CT image using MCNPX

Multivariate Regression Modeling

Some methods for regression modeling with explanations of mediators and confounders

Interactive Campep Statistics

A shiny app for analysis of enrolment and employment for Medical Physics students