<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Data on Mike's Logs</title><link>https://mdunn99.com/tags/data/</link><description>Recent content in Data on Mike's Logs</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>&lt;a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0&lt;/a></copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mdunn99.com/tags/data/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Training a Basic Random Forest Regression Model</title><link>https://mdunn99.com/posts/forest_regression/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://mdunn99.com/posts/forest_regression/</guid><description>&lt;p>You can read the code for this project on my &lt;a href="https://github.com/mdunn99/housing-prices-competition">Github&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="random-forest-regression---hyperparameters-and-feature-selection">Random Forest Regression - Hyperparameters and Feature Selection&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>It was earlier last month when I decided to get a head-start on learning how to build machine learning models and manipulate datasets using libraries like pandas and numpy. &lt;a href="https://www.kaggle.com/">Kaggle&lt;/a>, the excellent dataset resource, it turns out, also provides in-depth courses and challenges to stimulate the exact kinds of things I wanted to get involved in. Their short &lt;a href="https://www.kaggle.com/learn/intro-to-machine-learning">&amp;ldquo;Intro to Machine Learning&amp;rdquo; course&lt;/a> was an excellent primer for building a simple model leveraging the SciKit sklearn Python libraries.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>