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Machine Learning: K-Nearest Neighbors, Part 2

Relying on the same dataset used in the linear regression from Part 1, we built a K-Nearest Neighbors predictive model in Python. … Continue…Machine Learning: K-Nearest Neighbors, Part 2

Machine Learning: K-Nearest Neighbors, Part 1

Maderas Partners sought to build a model to predict whether a person would be arrested or frisked during a stop based on the other information provided by the city. To accomplish this goal, we employed a commonly used machine learning technique called K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) … Continue…Machine Learning: K-Nearest Neighbors, Part 1

Econometrics: Difference-in-Difference

The Difference-in-Difference (DiD) analysis is a powerful econometric tool with very practical uses. The classical use of DID is to analyze the difference between two groups after some sort of treatment. … Continue…Econometrics: Difference-in-Difference

Data Cleaning: Organizing Messy Data

In a recent project, the client asked Maderas Partners to run a series of calculations related to their employees’ work history. The calculations themselves were rather basic. However, the real challenge was organizing the dataset in such a way that allowed for the calculations to be run for all employees over the entire time period. … Continue…Data Cleaning: Organizing Messy Data