Day: January 27, 2013

My friend, Andrew B. was kind enough to spend most of the day with me yesterday to work on a problem I have at work for which his every growing knowledge of “big data” analytics is the perfect tool set.  He showed me how to do logistic regression and then showed me an open source toolset called Weka that is amazing in its simplicity, but extremely powerful.  Of course, I am not anywhere close to Andrew in any of this, but I have discovered a new world and that is ALWAYS a very good thing.  Give us fun new things to learn and we are happy.  THANKS ANDREW (again)!

Here is the video I used to learn how to do it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7kpIBGEdkI

Here is my output:

Day 524 of 1000

We went to lunch today with our friends Tom and Sharon, originally from Michigan, but currently living in North Carolina and our other friends Mundo, Malena, Perla, and Sofia, originally from Mexico, but currently living in North Carolina.  It amazing how much we all have in common.  I wish I had a picture to commemorate the moment, but that can wait for next time.  The challenges of life don’t seem nearly as big when you have close friends who are on your side with the most imporant things in commom.  I am feeling pretty grateful and thankful right now and I am even grateful and thankful for that.