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Deep Learning for Text Classification

Deep Learning Modeling Deep Learning Text Classificationposted by Matthew Teschke February 14, 2019

The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and reach national publications within hours. The volume of information is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new... Read more

Integrating Textual and Visual Information Into a Powerful Visual Search Engine

Conferences Modeling Conferences visual searchposted by Pat Lasserre February 13, 2019

GSI Technology recently hosted a panel discussion on visual search at ODSC West 2018. The panel featured presentations from Clarifai, eBay, Google, Walmart Labs/Jet.com, and Wayfair. This blog post summarizes Walmart Labs/Jet.com’s panel presentation from the conference. Their presentation showed how they used Elasticsearch, a popular text search engine, to build a... Read more

The 2019 Data Science Dictionary – Key Terms You Need to Know

Featured Post Modeling Featured Postposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC February 12, 2019

The data science field is teeming with terminology, a confluence of terms from computer science, statistics, mathematics, and software engineering. In addition, the language of data science evolves very quickly. As a journalist and also a data scientist, I probably see the newest terms before many others in the... Read more

Deep Learning for Business: 5 Use Cases

Deep Learning Featured Post Modeling Business Deep Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC February 8, 2019

Enterprises at every stage of growth from startups to Fortune 500 firms are using AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies for a wide variety of applications. Deep learning, as the fastest growing area in AI, is empowering much progress in all classes of emerging markets and ultimately will... Read more

7 Tips for Visual Search at Scale

Data Visualization Modeling Tools & Languages Uncategorized Conferences ODSC West visual searchposted by Pat Lasserre February 6, 2019

Visual search is a rapidly emerging trend that is ideal for retail segments, such as fashion and home design, because they are largely driven by visual content, and style is often difficult to describe using text search alone. It is a topic of interest to data scientists, as evidenced... Read more

Feature Selection Using Genetic Algorithms in R

Modeling Feature selection Machine Learningposted by Pablo Casas February 4, 2019

This is a post about feature selection using genetic algorithms in R, in which we will do a quick review about: What are genetic algorithms? GA in ML? What does a solution look like? GA process and its operators The fitness function Genetics Algorithms in R! Try it yourself... Read more

Your Data is Garbage Unless it Tells a Story

Modeling Data Storytellingposted by Bill Shander February 1, 2019

If a tree falls in the forest… you know the aphorism. I’m using it here to remind you that your most important job is not data science – OK, maybe it’s not more important, but it’s equally important – is communications. When you do work, and your work remains in a... Read more

Essential NLP Tools, Code, and Tips

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processing NLPposted by Diego Lopez Yse February 1, 2019

In a previous article, we introduced the influential impact of natural language processing (NLP) in different industries and explained the way this discipline is reshaping several fields, yet facing huge challenges on its way. The main drawbacks we face these days with NLP relate to the fact that language... Read more

Automated Machine Learning: Myth Versus Reality

Modeling AutoML Machine Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC January 31, 2019

Witnessing the data science field’s meteoric rise in demand across pretty much all industries and areas of scientific research, it’s easy to anticipate efforts to create shortcuts to satisfy the need for more data science practitioners. The current trend of automated machine learning is a great case in point.... Read more

Reading Tea Leaves: Principles of Predictive Analytics and the Path to Time-Series Predictions

Modeling Predictive Analytics Predictive Modeling Time Seriesposted by Scott Haines January 31, 2019

With the advent of so many wonderful open-source tools and frameworks for machine learning & deep learning, it can sometimes be difficult to understand just what defines the subset of the problem space defined by predictive analytics. This is mainly due to the fact that classification problems, statistics, and... Read more