[R] machine learning and horse racing

[jim holtman]

Need more information.  What is your operating system, how much memory
do you have, how big is your data, what operations are you failing on,
etc.

On 9/17/07, stephenc at ics.mq.edu.au <stephenc at ics.mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I am trying to use various techniques (eg svm, logistic regression,
> neural networks) to classify and predict the outcome of horse races.
>
>  Most of my predictive features are categorical  - horse, jockey, trainer
> - and I keep on running out of memory owing to the size of the vector.
>
>  Does anyone know how to solve the problem?
>
>  I have classified the outcomes as win/lose or place/lose with a view to
> train on x years of results and then testing on the subsequent years
> results. Is there some alternate way of looking at the problem?
>
>  Does anyone have pointers to published work in this area?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Stephen
>
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?