Wrangling through Dataland

Zen and the Art of Model Optimization

Comparing models in a social media NLP challenge

Alvin T. Tan, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
11 min readDec 7, 2019

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of my favorite books in college. Set amidst a father-son motorcycle journey across the United States, the book considers how to lead a meaningful life. Arguably, the key message expounded by the…

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