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The Rapid Evolution of the Canonical Stack for Machine Learning

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modelingposted by ODSC Community July 13, 2021

Just a few years ago, almost nobody was building software to support the surge of new machine learning apps coming into production all over the world. Every big tech company, like Google, Lyft, Microsoft, and Amazon rolled their own AI/ML tech stack from scratch. See the... Read more

Top 5 Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare

Business + Management Guest contributor Healthcare Machine Learningposted by ODSC Community July 13, 2021

Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), where computer systems independently find solutions to complex problems using recurring patterns in databases. Put differently, machine learning helps IT systems to recognize patterns from existing algorithms and datasets, then go ahead and develop appropriate solutions.... Read more

Decoupling Complex Systems with Event Driven Python Programming

Guest contributor Modeling Python Tools & Languagesposted by ODSC Community July 2, 2021

We often think about events as ordered points in time that happen one after another, often with some kind of cause-effect relationship. But, in programming, events are often understood a bit differently. They are not necessarily “things that happen.” Events in programming are more often understood... Read more

Concept Drift 101

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling Concept Driftposted by ODSC Community June 20, 2021

Our world is constantly changing and what’s considered true and obvious today may not be so tomorrow. This is particularly true in the world of machine learning models. The objective of machine learning models is to extract patterns from past data and use them to predict... Read more

On The Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Guest contributor Modeling NLP/Text Analyticsposted by ODSC Community May 17, 2021

In March this year, the ACM FAccT conference published the paper titled above, authored by Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and “Shmargaret Shmitchell”. This paper attracted intense controversy, and led to the exit of Gebru and Margaret Mitchell (“Shmargaret Shmitchell” in the paper) from the Google AI Ethics team.... Read more

Take the Data Science and Machine Learning Survey

Guest contributor Tech Updates SAS Blogsposted by ODSC Community April 13, 2021

As a practicing data professional, you are in a unique position to help the world better understand the Data Science and Machine Learning landscape. Toward that end, Bob E. Hayes, PhD of Business Over Broadway is conducting a worldwide survey of data professionals; this survey will... Read more

6 Business-Friendly Data Analysis Solutions

Business + Management Guest contributor data analysisposted by ODSC Community February 2, 2021

Nowadays, you may hear about big data and machines taking over the lives of people worldwide. From artificial intelligence (AI) to coding to computer science, and so on, technology has ushered in miracles and advancements that might not have been anticipated years ago. In addition, various... Read more

Why Use D3 for Data Visualization?

Data Visualization Guest contributor Modelingposted by Bill Shander January 27, 2021

This is like saying why eat burritos? Because they’re amazing!!! That’s why!!! OK, now some of you may be saying to yourselves, “Bill, I don’t like burritos. You’ve lost me.” First, I’m very sorry for you. Not appreciating burritos may be genetic and I won’t judge... Read more

Discover the Top 10 Trends in Enterprise Machine Learning for 2021

Business + Management Guest contributor Enterprise Machine Learningposted by ODSC Community January 26, 2021

In the past 12 months, there have been myriad developments in the field of AI/ML. Not only have we seen shifts in tooling, security, and governance needs for organizations, but we’ve also witnessed massive changes in the field due to the economic impacts of COVID-19. Every... Read more

The Psychic Syndrome: How the Data Science Community Forgot About the Data

Guest contributor Modeling Coronavirus COVID 19posted by ODSC Community January 8, 2021

When scrolling through social media in March of this year, I could not help but notice the overwhelming amount of data science projects on COVID-19. At some point, it seemed like all LinkedIn or Twitter consisted of were forecasts of how the pandemic might play out... Read more