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Statistical Stock Portfolio Optimization

Applying my coursework from STATS C183/C283
R
project
UCLA

The lines don’t look like this at all at the time I’m making this post
Apr 8, 2025
Naren Prakash

Analyzing Airbnb Prices from a Geostatistical Approach

Applying my coursework from STATS C173/C273
R
project
UCLA
Predicting the price of Airbnb listings is a pretty standard project for most people in the stats / data science / ML space. I mean, the data is fairly comprehensive and…
Apr 6, 2025
Naren Prakash

A new blog home

news
This is very much not a sponsored post (though if they wanted to sponsor me I would absolutely accept) but after “discovering” quarto, I’ve decided to move my personal blog…
Mar 26, 2025
Naren Prakash

Why I made this website

A 2024 Winter Break project I finished up right before the new year
news
project
Note: This is about my professional website. Check it out if you haven’t!
Dec 31, 2024
Naren Prakash

How I ended up wanting to become a data scientist (a long post)

A decision I made in the summer of 2022
goals
career
To be honest I never really anticipated finding myself in this position. For pretty much as long as I could remember, I was convinced I was going to become a scientist.…
Dec 24, 2024
Naren Prakash

Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection

Done as a ML / Data Science Intern @ Halliburton
internship
project
Python
We all know equipment maintenance is important for saving money, reducing waste, and preventing accidents as a result of equipment malfunctions.
Dec 24, 2024
Naren Prakash

Data Generator

Done as a ML / Data Science Intern @ Halliburton
internship
project
Python
With such large amounts of data that can’t fit in memory alone, how can we use all of it for training?
Dec 24, 2024
Naren Prakash
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