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Web Scraping News Articles in Python

Machine Learning Modeling Python Tools & Languages NLP Pythonposted by Miguel Fernández Zafra November 20, 2019

This article is the second of a series in which I will cover the whole process of developing a machine learning project. If you have not read the first one, I strongly encourage you to do it here. The project involves the creation of a real-time web application that gathers data from several newspapers... Read more

Why Datafication is Key for the Organisation of Tomorrow

Modeling Predictive Analytics data organization data-driven businessposted by Mark van Rijmenam November 19, 2019

Imagine, it is Friday afternoon, and after a long week at work, you and your colleagues decide to go to the bar to unwind and refresh with a nice cool glass of beer. You go to your favourite pub and upon reaching the bar order a few pints. However,... Read more

Balancing Interpretability and Predictive Power with Cubist Models in R

Machine Learning Modeling R Tools & Languages Cubist Modelsposted by Jacey Heuer November 18, 2019

Machine learning models are powerful tools that do well in their purpose of prediction. In many business applications, the power of these models is quite beneficial. With any application of a machine learning model, the process to choosing which model involves determining the model that performs best across a... Read more

Local Regression in Python

Data Visualization Modeling Python Tools & Languages Data Visualization logical regression Pythonposted by Allen Downey November 15, 2019

I love data visualization make-overs (like this one I wrote a few months ago), but sometimes the tone can be too negative (like this one I wrote a few months ago). Sarah Leo, a data journalist at The Economist, has found the perfect solution: re-making your own visualizations. Here’s her tweet.... Read more

Is Babel’s Data Tower Compatible With Centralized ML Solutions?

Conferences Modeling ODSC Speaker Europe 2019posted by ODSC Community November 14, 2019

Does data have a common language? Data structure and its content reflect the technological domain where the data comes from. The available technology is a relevant aspect to be considered. Professionals usually create databases by using the tools which are available in the digital market. Therefore, most of the... Read more

7 AI Research Labs in Europe Leading the Data Science Community

Academic Research Modeling Researchposted by ODSC Team November 13, 2019

In the past, we’ve highlighted some West Coast AI research labs that we think are doing some really incredible work. Now, in an attempt to look past the dominating presence of Silicon Valley, we’re turning our focus overseas and taking a closer look at some of the cutting-edge Europe... Read more

Text Classification in Python

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Python Tools & Languages Text Classificationposted by Miguel Fernández Zafra November 12, 2019

This article is the first of a series in which I will cover the whole process of developing a machine learning project. This one focuses on training a supervised learning text classification model in Python. The motivation behind writing these articles is the following: as a learning data scientist who has... Read more

9 Organizations and People Leading the NLP Field

Modeling NLP/Text Analyticsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC November 6, 2019

Got a keen interest in where NLP is headed? Who doesn’t? It’s one of the most exciting developments we have in AI, and it’s making waves in every industry imaginable. If you’re trying to keep up with all the advancements, we’ve got nine leaders in NLP you need to... Read more

Creativity Inspired Zero-shot Learning

Conferences Machine Learning Modeling ODSC Speaker Computer Vision zero-shot learningposted by ODSC Community November 5, 2019

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at understanding unseen categories with no training examples from class-level descriptions. To improve the discriminative power of zero-shot learning, we model the visual learning process of unseen categories with inspiration from the psychology of human creativity for producing novel art. We relate ZSL to human... Read more

Discovering 135 Nights of Sleep with Data, Anomaly Detection, and Time Series

Modeling Python R Statistics Tools & Languages anomaly detection Time Seriesposted by Juan De Dios Santos November 4, 2019

In this article, I look at data from 135 nights of sleep and use anomaly detection and time series data to understand the results. Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and sleeping. Here, we’ll talk about the latest. Every night*, us humans, after a long day of... Read more