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Applied Ml
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How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
Chris McKinlay scraped OkCupid, clustered female users with k-means, and optimized his profile to score high compatibility across all clusters — then met his wife through the resulting message flood. A crowd-pleasing 2014 story about data science applied to dating.
k-Nearest Neighbor Classification for Harrisburg Crimes
k-Nearest Neighbor classification applied to predicting crime type in Harrisburg, PA from location and time features. A typical early applied ML blog post that makes the algorithm concrete with a public dataset.
Thumbtack Data Scientist Challenges
Thumbtack's public data scientist hiring challenge — real analysis and modeling problems used to evaluate candidates. A window into what applied data science work looked like at a 2014 marketplace startup.