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This webpage contains notebooks related to machine learning, big data, neural networks and so on. This webpage has two main purposes:

Economics Notebooks

In this section, I store notebooks related to economic analysis and related topics such as commodities.

Macroeconomics and Indicators

Hodrick Prescott Filters on US Real GDP

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In this notebook, I implement HP Filters on US real GDP data from FRED in three ways:

This notebook is a useful resource for examples related to HP filters, plot NBER recessions and using Hessian matrix in Scipy's minimize.

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Oil Price at a Glance

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This notebook is a demonstration on how to use Jupyter to produce quick reports. Historical prices for WTI and Brent are directly downloaded from the EIA database and plotted.

Machine Learning & Neural Networks

Reading Notes: Deep Learning with Python [Francois Chollet]

In this section, I will include notebooks created during my reading of Francois Chollet's "Deep Learning with Python". This book is dedicated to the building of neural networks.

Visualizing Intermediate Activations

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This notebook uses the techniques described in Chapter 5 of the book to vizualize the output of intermediate layers of a convnet. I used a picture of my parents' cat to showcase the results. The most interesting part of this notebook is the final output consisting of one picture for each layer, where the lighter area correspond to the most activated cells in the tensors resulting from each layer.

Visualizing Filters

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This notebook uses an alternative way to understand what the covnet considers when analyzing a picture. This techniques highlights the patterns to which each layers respond to. The pre-trained network used in this example is VGG16.

Vizualizing Intermediate Activations

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This notebook present a third way to graphically understand a neural network. In this case, I make VGG16 predict what animal is on a picture of my parents' dog. I then use the result to create a heatmap and graph it together with the picture to see the areas where VGG16 recognized a dog.

Works on Kaggle

This section includes links to my public kernels on Kaggle.

Titanic: Back to Basics

Notebook on Kaggle

I created this notebook in early 2018, approximately one year after starting using Machine Learning and Neural Networks. With this notebook, I wanted to apply what I was learning on a classic toy dataset, with less time spent on features engineering and more on model selection.

Crime Scene Exploration and Model Fit

Notebook on Kaggle

This notebook is one of my first step in data vizualisation. The resulting graphs mapping crimes in San Francisco are relatively interesting and I always keep a link to this kernel in case I would need to reuse part of the code to plot geographical data. Contrary to what the title of the kernel may suggest, I never went on fitting the model, except for two (one being a "null" model and the other using a simple Naive Bayes approach.

Upcoming Notebooks

Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium

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I am currently (July 2019) working on implementing the IMF's DSGE model. I may create a more generic class in order to quickly adapt my code to implement the ECB's Smets-Woulter model with minimal changes in the code.