Explaining Logistic Regression to Your Boss

Meetup Content Summary:

Russ Lavery will present how to explain logistic regression to your boss. Topics covered are:

1. Odds are not probabilities or percents
2. Why 1 / (1 + exp(-x))?
3. Separation – complete and partial
4. Why the logit?
5. Beta values and their effect on curves
6. Oversampling – why and how
7. The logic of the ROC curve is so easy to understand
8. The C statistic and the ROC Curve

Agenda:

Thursday, June 7th, 2018

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM Networking

6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Presentation

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM Q&A and Networking

Pizzas and soft drinks sponsored by Optymyze.

Location: PromptWorks

Speaker:

Russ Lavery

Russ Lavery is a frequent, and multiple award winning presenter at programming conferences. He has been the tech reviewer for five books on programming and data mining topics.

Sponsors:

Optymyze:
Checkout Optymyze's career page for exciting job opportunities. Optymyze representative will be available to answer your questions about Optymyze.
https://optymyze.com/company/careers/

PromptWorks:
PromptWorks is a Philadelphia-based software development company with expertise in Ruby, Python, Javascript and mobile development. Their team of 20+ software engineers and designers have helped Fortune 500 companies and Startups alike build successful web applications, mobile apps & enterprise apps.
https://www.promptworks.com/services/software-developers?utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=rproject&utm_campaign=community

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