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The zero-inflated Poisson model concerns a random event containing excess zero-count data in unit time. For instance, the number of insurance claims within a population for a certain type of risk would be zero-inflated by those people who have not taken out insurance against the risk and thus …

Foursquare uses its unique location technology and foot traffic panel to produce personalized recommendations of spatial items such as restaurants. Recently I've read a paper LCARS: A Spatial Item Recommender System that I implemented from scratch in R.

The recommender system combines the querying user's interest and the local preference …

Many people like watching movies, and I do too. Recently I've discovered this somewhat sketchy Korean site that hosts quite a few movies online. I call it sketchy because I almost always see ads asking me to download a piece of software that's supposed to protect my computer from a …

Bon Me is one of my favorite places to grab a quick bite for lunch. Surprisingly I didn't know about its existence until earlier last year despite being so close to my workplace. I really recommend you try miso-braised pulled pork on brown rice without cilantro. It's really addicting.

Anyhow …

Hi there! It's been a little more than a month since my last post. Thanksgiving was two days ago, and I had a good time with my family. How's everyone doing?

With the upcoming Cyber Monday, I'm sure many of you have cool electronics and gadgets in mind to look …