Category: Data Science

Improving your Azure Machine Learning model

In this example we start with a sample experiment from the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Gallery: Regression: Demand estimation. In this example there are four models built, and compared, based the newly created features. We will explore whether standard operations could improve these samples models, inspired by the e-book Data Science in the Cloud with Azure Machine Learning and R of Stephen Elston.  We haven’t used the suggested new features that depend on prior info which wasn’t always complete, but created some other variables, that could be created based on the available dataset. Observing the sample, there are basically two areas where we see quick possibilities for improvement: data cleaning and transformation and evaluation of the results. Continue reading “Azure Machine Learning: how to easily improve your model”