Name to Age

How much does your name say about your age? We use the database of names from the social security administration, as well as age distribution data from the US Census, to find out! See what your own name's age distribution looks like here.

Custom scoring in cross-validation

The scoring functions used in our models are often baked in (such as using cross-entropy in Logistic Regression). We do get some choices when cross-validating, however. For example, we can pick the regularization parameter by using the ROC area...