About Us

Welcome to MinVolai.  The name derives from the Tamil words ‘Min’ refering to electronic and ‘Volai’ refering to OlaiChuvadi (Manuscripts on Palm leaves in Ancient times).   This blog serves to share our learnings and opinions on various topics with you.

Hi,
I’m a software professional, exploring new ideas and experimenting in web mining. Python is my programming language of choice. I love dark chocolate, DBC (Death by chocolate), Batman comics and animated series and Phantom comics. I’m attached to my Z60m T510 laptop and the Sansa SanDisk player my hubby gifted me :)  If you would like to email me, my id is sharmila.gopirajan and server is gmail.com

 

Sharmila G Sivakumar

Hello,

I work as release manager at Collabnet.  My work utilizes a mélange of python, perl and java.  I relish programming and building apps as much as, if not more than, my RM role.  I’m curious about Agile Application Lifecyle.  Treking, Tours and Movies are my ways of tackling stress.  And the usual disclaimer, all the views expressed here are mine alone and do not reflect Collabnet’s in any way. :)

Sivakumar Gopalan

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Grid Search for Email Classification

As continued from the Supervised Classification Post, we have been running grid search on the email classification algorithm varying Gamma and C.  The result are as below. Each column represents a Gamma value and each row represents a C value. The value of the internal grids themselves are error rate percentage for the given value of [...]

Email Classification – Supervised Learning

Background:  Learning to Data Crunch The first challenge I set for myself was email classification. While spam classification might seem like beating a dead horse. some of my reasons for choosing it is as below It had to be based on text processing as that what is most of my personal projects are based on. [...]