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| | A few posts back I wrote about a common parameter optimization method known as Gradient Ascent. In this post we will see how a similar method can be used to create a model that can classify data. This time, instead of using gradient ascent to maximize a reward function, we will use gradient descent to minimize a cost function. Lets start by importing all the libraries we need:
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| | I make Python packages for everything. Big projects obviously get a package, but so does every tiny analysis. Spinning up a quick jupyter notebook to check something out? Build a package first. Oh yeah, and every package gets its own virtual environment. Let's back up a little bit so that I can tell you why I do this. After that, I'll show you how I do this. Notably, my workflow is set up to make it simple to stay consistent.
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| | Dataset retreived from: Utrecht University & Google, 2021, via Google Environmental Insights Explorer (August 2021)
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| Some weird legacy behavior in JavaScript