Jeremy Swerdlow

The finalized poster for EPIC Expo is attached here, on the addition of new training samples to a decision tree.

This past week I set up a git repo for my senior research, and am now working to create a system diagram for my project. In addition, this week I will be working through the source code of scikit-learn to better understand how they create their decision trees, and identify which parts of the extensive … Read more

For this week, I reviewed the source material on decision tree creation, attempting to further my understanding, and think about where to begin editing. For next week, I will be setting up a git repo with the source code from sci-kit learn, and begin to work on the design of how to add more data.

In machine learning, there has been a shift away from focusing on the creation complex algorithms to solve problems. Instead, a large focus has been on the application of simpler algorithms which learn from datasets. This shift has been made possible through the ever-increasing computational power of modern computers, and the massive amounts of data … Read more

My senior research is on adapting how decision trees in Python add data, to allow them to grow further after their initial creation. By allowing data to be added later, we can greatly reduce the time required to update a model in production. Please find attached a copy of the proposal for this research. jjswerd14_388_project_proposal