Ross Farrelly

Check out my new blog post on big data summit here http://blogs.teradata.com/anz/A-View-from-the-Summit–How-best-to-climb-the-Bi...

I will be presenting at TD Universe shortly - see http://www.teradatauniverse.com.au/default

Interested in Big Data? See my latest article in The Rust Report -    http://www.rustreport.com.au/issues/latestissue/big-data-big-opportunities/

If you'd like to read my suggestions on how to improve the lot of indigenous Australians, I have a new article just published in Policy Magazine.  See  http://www.cis.org.au/publications/policy-magazine  for details.

I’ve finished 111 th out of 588 teams in the Don’t Get Kicked competition on Kaggle (top 20%). Not too bad I think. I used R on a standard laptop to make 27 submissions and obtained a Gini of 0.23975. The leaders took 119 submissions to get 0.26720.

Now up in top 50 of " Don't Get Kicked " by using  Generalized Boosted Regression Models

Am experimenting with R package glmnet in the "Don't Get Kicked" contest on Kaggle .