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Designing Better Recommendation Systems with Machine Learning

Machine Learning Conferences Machine Learning Recommendation Systemposted by Luke Coughlin May 23, 2019

Recommendation systems are among the most familiar applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Not only are these systems valuable to consumers who may be looking for anything from new shows to watch or a better options for airfare, but they are also important to the... Read more

The Complete Guide to Decision Trees (part 2)

Machine Learning Modeling Decision Trees Machine Learningposted by Diego Lopez Yse May 21, 2019

(See part 1 here.) Now you may ask yourself: how do DTs know which features to select and how to split the data? To understand that, we need to get into some details. All DTs perform basically the same task: they examine all the attributes of... Read more

Operationalization of Machine Learning Models

Business + Management Machine Learning Accelerate AI Machine Learningposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 21, 2019

Lots of businesses want to use machine learning, but few are ready to integrate machine learning into a real-life context of operations. Dr. Mufajjul Ali, Data Solutions Architect for Microsoft, outlines how Microsoft is addressing these needs and offers some advice for businesses looking to operationalize... Read more

The Complete Guide to Decision Trees (part 1)

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling Decision Trees Machine Learningposted by Diego Lopez Yse May 15, 2019

In the beginning, learning Machine Learning (ML) can be intimidating. Terms like “Gradient Descent”, “Latent Dirichlet Allocation” or “Convolutional Layer” can scare lots of people. But there are friendly ways of getting into the discipline, and I think starting with this guide to decision trees is... Read more

What are MLOps and Why Does it Matter?

Business + Management Machine Learning Accelerate AI Machine Learningposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 13, 2019

During the industrial revolution, the rise of physical machines required organizations to systematize, forming factories, assembly lines, and everything we know about automated manufacturing. During the first tech boom, Agile systems helped organizations operationalize the product lifecycle, paving the way for continuous innovation by clearing waste... Read more

How to Choose Machine Learning or Deep Learning for Your Business

Business + Management Deep Learning Machine Learning Accelerate AI Deep Learning Machine Learningposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 2, 2019

AI is the future, or so you’re hearing. Every day, news of another organization leveraging AI to produce business outcomes that outstrip competition hit your inbox, but your company either hasn’t started at all or is mired in the discussion. AI, machine learning, and deep learning... Read more

25 Excellent Machine Learning Open Datasets

Featured Post Machine Learning Modeling Machine Learning Open Dataposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC April 26, 2019

Your machine learning program is only as good as your training sets. Data sets are an integral part of the quality of your machine learning, but you may not always have access to data behind closed walls or the budget to purchase (or rent) the key.... Read more

5 Roadblocks to Getting an ML System in Production

Business + Management Guest contributor Machine Learning Machine Learningposted by Ben Schneider April 25, 2019

We typically meet an organization’s data science team after they’ve carried out a successful proof of concept. The algorithm they built or acquired produced results that were promising enough to greenlight development of a production ML system. It’s at this point that the immaturity of ML... Read more

Properly Setting the Random Seed in ML Experiments. Not as Simple as You Might Imagine

Featured Post Machine Learning Modeling ODSC Speaker Machine Learning ODSC Speakerposted by Cecelia Shao April 24, 2019

Join Comet at Booth 406 in the ODSC East Expo Hall. We will also be speaking at ODSC: – April 30, 9 am — A Deeper Stack for Deep Learning: Adding Visualizations + Data Abstractions to your Workflow (Douglas Blank, Head of Research) – May... Read more

4 Steps to Start Machine Learning with Computer Vision

Machine Learning Modeling Computer Vision Machine Learningposted by Ralabs April 24, 2019

In 2012, AlexNet took first place at the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, marking the first time a convolutional neural network had won the image classification competition. One more factor that made this achievement much more significant is that AlexNet showed twice the accuracy than... Read more