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Jes LaCourse

Jes LaCourse

Statistics and Data Visualization

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Barriers in Biology

·13 mins
This study tracks the impact of course-taking and change-in-major habits on award-earning and transfers for the 224 Biology for Transfer majors in the 2017-18 cohort.

Feature Choice in Classification of Wheat Kernels

·6 mins
Feature selection is just as important as hyperparameter choice, yet many classifiers cherry-pick features without much empirical basis. While hyperparameters are easier to tweak, we must account for the impact of boosting these hyperparameters and the risk and impact of overfit.