Views Prediction - A Quora Challenge - Part II (Regression)

Recap In the last post, we imported the data provided from Quora. It was split 9:1 into training and test data (unlabled with __ans__ missing). But we will also need to split our data even further. I am talking about using part of the labeled training data to check the accuracy of our model. In this post, I will do regression models and evaluate their accuracy. I am new to regression; as a result, this post won’t be focused on the Quora challenge, rather, it is an exposition to help me better understand regression models....

August 30, 2017 · 16 min · Yohannes

Views Prediction - A Quora Challenge

Hello! I am doing the Quora Views challenge. In upcoming posts, I will chronicle my progress. In this post, I discuss the data munging after introducing the challenge. Prompt The questions the challenge wants to address are the following: Can you tell which questions can organically attract the most viewers? What about questiosn that eventually become viral? Which questions are timeless and can sustain traffic? “Organically attract.” Hmm, what does that exactly mean?...

August 29, 2017 · 24 min · Yohannes

How to make and host a Discord Bot, Part I

So, you want to make a discord bot. In this two part tutorial, I will show you how to make a simple discord bot before exlaining how you can host it on Amazon AWS. The bot will be written in python using the discord.py library. There are several versions of this library, enough to cause confusion. But for this tutorial, the rewrite (v1.0.0)version, the actively supported branch is used. The documentation is available here....

August 17, 2017 · 9 min · Y D.A.