# Posts

### Correlation analysis of ETF using Python

Previously, we have covered why and how to create a correlation matrix of ETFs available in Hong Kong market using Python. Now we …

### Finding correlation coefficients between ETFs with Python

Several months ago I finished reading the book The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein. It is a really nice book if you …

### Next Word Prediction using Katz Backoff Model - Part 3: Prediction Model Implementation

Executive Summary The Capstone Project of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization is to build an NLP application, which should …

### Next Word Prediction using Katz Backoff Model - Part 2: N-gram model, Katz Backoff, and Good-Turing Discounting

Executive Summary The Capstone Project of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization is to build an NLP application, which should …

### Next Word Prediction using Katz Backoff Model - Part 1: The Data Analysis

Executive Summary The Capstone Project of the Data Science Specialization in Coursera offered by Johns Hopkins University is to build …

### Logistic Regression 2 – Cost Function, Gradient Descent and Other Optimization Algorithms

We have discussed the basic ideas of logistic regression in previous post. The purpose of logistic regression is to find the optimal …

### Logistic Regression 1 – Classification, Logistic Regression and Sigmoid Function

In previous series of posts we discussed simple and multivariate linear regression that can be used to predict target features with …

### Linear Regression 5 - Other Practical Issues

In the previous articles we have discussed the basic concept of simple linear regression; how to measure the error of the regression …

### Linear Regression 4 - Learning Rate and Initial Weight

Choosing Learning Rate We introduced an important parameter, the learning rate $$\alpha$$, in Linear Regression 2 – Gradient Descent …

### Linear Regression 3 - Multivariate Linear Regression

The Simple Linear Regression can only handle the relationship between the target feature and one descriptive feature, which is not …