Models
Fits a straight line to the data to predict a continuous outcome
What is linear regression?
Measures the proportion of correct predictions
You won’t find this CS professor without his iconic hat that reads “τέχνῃ”, the Greek root for “technology”
Who is Geoffrey Challen?
The fastest breed of dog, with the same name as a bus system in the US.
What is greyhound?
The current president of iDSC
Who is Sam Barbeau?
This classification algorithm splits data using decision boundaries and is easy to visualize
What is a decision tree?
Measures the amount of variance in the dependant variable that can be explained by the independant variable/s
What is the coefficient of determination (R^2)?
This professor built an AI chatbot version of himself on his website trained on his own notes
Who is Geoffrey Challen?
Who was the seventh president of the United States?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The second half of the semester is dedicated to this team-based competition
What is the data dive?
Groups unlabeled data based on similarity into a fixed number of clusters
What is k-means clustering?
Balances precision and recall in a classification task
What is the F1 score?
This professor’s last name comes from the combination of his former last name and his wife’s
Who is Geoffrey Challen?
What are the Four Corner States?
Where is Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
The number of project leads on the executive team
What is 7?
Great for text analysis, this model is based off of a well-known rule regarding conditional probabilities
What is naive Bayes?
The area under an ROC curve
What is the AUC (Area Under the Curve)?
Mark Zuckerberg tried to recruit this professor (his TA at the time) to Facebook when it was just starting out but he refused
Who is Geoffrey Challen?
How many siblings does Alysa Liu have?
What is 4?
The semester that iDSC was founded
What is Fall 2020?
This algorithm finds optimal the boundary, called a hyperplane, to separate classes
What is a support vector machine (SVM)?
The intersection of two sets divided by the union
What is the Jaccard index/similarity?
This professor allegedly once refused to grant a student an extension after they were hit by a car
Who is Geoffrey Challen?
The Game Changers book series (the books Heated Rivalry is based on) started as a fan-fiction pairing these two Marvel characters.
Who are Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes?
The name of last semester's winning team
What is the Matplotlibs?