{"id":16,"date":"2025-04-19T06:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/?p=16"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:52:37","slug":"bi-weekly-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/2025\/04\/19\/bi-weekly-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Weekly Update #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During these last two weeks, I focussed on implementing SVMs. I again used Tom Mitchell\u2019s \u201cMachine Learning\u201d[1] as a base for my research and understanding of SVMs. After some research I decided a linear kernel would be appropriate for my purposes, as the dataset is quite large so training multiple gaussian kernels SVMs, as is necessary for analyzing performance, would be extremely time consuming. After some research I decided to use Scikit learn\u2019s SGDClassifier[2] as the base for my model, as it is the fastest option I found. I have now implemented the model, though I have yet to finish the analysis portion of my code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the next two weeks I will focus on completing the analysis portion of my code, then preparing the demo video, which will likely feature an explanation of my code, and my reasoning behind choosing my hyperparameter configurations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Logbook &#8211; Mar 21<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 5 &#8211; Researched project Ideas &#8211; 2 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 7 &#8211; Wrote Project proposal &#8211; 3 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 17 &#8211; Further research of learning algorithms &#8211; 1 hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 19 &#8211; Wrote code for: &nbsp; &#8211; 3 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reading the dataset<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Partitioning the data into training and testing sets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using K-fold cross validation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 21 &#8211; Wrote biweekly update &#8211; 2 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feb 28 &#8211; Researched Random Forests, and Implementation of Random Forests through Scikit Learn &#8211; 4 Hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 3 &#8211; Implementation of code for running Random Forests &#8211; 3 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 7 &#8211; Wrote Biweekly update &#8211; 2 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 9 &#8211; Reading\/Researching SVMs in[1] &#8211; 3 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 14 &#8211;&nbsp; Researched possible libraries to use for my base models &#8211; 2 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 20 &#8211; Implemented SVMs through Scikit learn &#8211; 2 hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 21 &#8211; Wrote Biweekly update and responded to feedback on my project &#8211; 2 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, url: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~tom\/files\/MachineLearningTomMitchell.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~tom\/files\/MachineLearningTomMitchell.pdf<\/a>, accessed March 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2] SGD Classifier, Scikit Learn, url: <a href=\"https:\/\/scikit-learn.org\/stable\/modules\/generated\/sklearn.linear_model.SGDClassifier.html\">SGDClassifier \u2014 scikit-learn 1.6.1 documentation<\/a>, accessed March 21, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these last two weeks, I focussed on implementing SVMs. I again used Tom Mitchell\u2019s \u201cMachine Learning\u201d[1] as a base for my research and understanding of SVMs. After some research I decided a linear kernel would be appropriate for my purposes, as the dataset is quite large so training multiple gaussian kernels SVMs, as is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/2025\/04\/19\/bi-weekly-update-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bi-Weekly Update #3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/haydendunstancsc466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}