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John Yap

John Yap

A statistician with several years of experience working on clinical trials and observational studies. John attended NYCDSA to learn about this very exciting data science field. He hopes to use his experience and data science knowledge to help improve the quality of life.

Articles Contributed by John Yap
Capstone

A Closer Look at Tree Boosting Methods

by John Yap and Felipe da Silva Santos
Jul 1, 2018
Introduction In the book The Elements of Statistical Learning (ESL) the authors stated that, “Boosting is one of the most...
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Machine Learning

An Interpretable Prediction Model for House Prices

by John Yap, Phoebe Zhou, Henry Chau and Michael Caballero
Jun 11, 2018
Background Whether it’s a newlywed couple looking to start a family or an investor looking to diversify their...
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Web Scraping

How Chain Restaurants Can Use Online Customer Reviews to Improve Their Businesses

by John Yap
May 21, 2018
Preface This post is about using web scraped online reviews data to (1) create a record log that restaurants...
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R Shiny

Visualizing Diabetes Clinical Studies Data

by John Yap
May 7, 2018
Introduction Diseases are part of human life. We have been dealing with them throughout history: from the outbreak...
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