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Thanks for the information! I've updated the article to reflect this. Here's a question: where does "the field" hang out? Is there a cohesive community of any

Thanks for the information! I've updated the article to reflect this. Here's a question: where does "the field" hang out? Is there a cohesive community of any sort?

danger 14y ago
I'd say the closest thing to a cohesive community would be the MetaOptimize Q&A forum, but maybe others have other suggestions: http://metaoptimize.com/qa http://metaoptimize.com/qa
gammarator 14y ago
The Kaggle forums can be a good resource, and competing there is a good way to polish your skills. Also, you might check out Random Forest algorithms--they're high performance but still very beginner friendly, as there aren't many parameters to tune. There's a nice implementation in the excellent scikits-learn python library.