Predictobot

Predictive Modeling Made Easy


Craig Schmidt

PyData Boston 2013

craig@predictobot.com

www.predictobot.com

@predictobot


slid.es/predictobot/pydata




Outline

  • Predictobot
  • Python Architecture
  • What Machine Learning Algorithm?

Goal:

Predictive modeling for everyone

  • Non-programmers, with no Machine Learning knowlege

  • Business people competent at Excel
  • For spreadsheet scale data



What can you do?


  • Make future predictions in a spreadsheet

  • Interact with the model, to see which attributes are the most important.

  • Make interactive predictions









Results



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Results

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Results 


optdigits: Zip Code Digits


3823 examples, 
32x32=1024 bits



Final Results


Status

  • Sign up now at www.predictobot.com

  • Free beta starting around end of August
  • Please tell your friends!

Using PiCloud:

Decouple website and Modeling

  • Millisecond billing
  • free parallelism
  • Environments
  • RESTful interface

Modeling Code


Django Code


What Machine Learning Algorithm?


What Machine Learning Algorithm?


Craig Schmidt


craig@predictobot.com

www.predictobot.com

@predictobot


slid.es/predictobot/pydata


Predictobot: PyData Boston 2013

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Predictobot: PyData Boston 2013

Slides from the talk Predictobot: Predictive Modeling Made Easy. Given July 28, 2013 at the PyData Boston conference in Cambridge, MA by Craig Schmidt.

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