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Jielei (Emma) Zhu

Jielei (Emma) Zhu

Emma (Jielei) Zhu graduated from New York University in May 2016 with a B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology and a minor in Mathematics. In school, Emma was able to explore her interests to the fullest by taking classes in Statistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Philosophy and Game Design. In the end, she found the combination of human behavior, statistical inference and Machine Learning algorithms interested her the most. Hence, the double major in Computer Science and Psychology and the minor in Math. Emma is a savvy programmer with proficiency in Python, R, MATLAB, Java and C. Using these languages, she has done projects on human perception, data visualizations, sentiment analysis, and star rating predictions. In her spare time, you could find Emma running, playing board games, and cracking jokes with friends.

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How to Beat the #1 Rank Score on Kaggle for Predicting Consumer Debt Default

by Bernard Ong, Jielei (Emma) Zhu, Nanda Rajarathinam and Miaozhi Yu
Sep 23, 2016
Introduction to Predicting Credit Default [Caveat: This blog is meant to demonstrate a Kaggle post-competition exercise and analytical...
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Machine Learning

Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge

by Yunrou Gong, Le Wei, Jielei (Emma) Zhu, Shuheng Li and Shuye Han
Aug 28, 2016
Contributed by (Emma) Jielei Zhu, Le Wei, Shuheng Li, Shuye Han and Yunrou Gong. They are currently in the NYC...
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Python

Web Scraping to Visualize Trends in Deals Using Data

by Jielei (Emma) Zhu
Aug 22, 2016
Motivation: In a world full of deals and coupons, have you ever wondered which deals are actually good...
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R Shiny

Are You Over-trusting Your Intuition? Play a Game to Find Out!

by Jielei (Emma) Zhu
Aug 8, 2016
Why a game?   We all use our intuition to help us make decisions, whether it’s picking places...
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R Visualization

What Can Baby Names Tell Us About Our Narcissism Epidemic?

by Jielei (Emma) Zhu
Jul 24, 2016
Introduction: How might baby names lead to narcissism? Imagine you are walking down the street when someone calls...
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