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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

Editor’s note: There is an updated version of this article for 2021. Please read it here for the most up-to-date listing on machine learning datasets! Your machine learning program is only as good as your training sets. Data sets are an integral part of the quality... 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

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Featured Post Machine Learning Modeling 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

Machine Learning Challenges You Might Not See Coming

Business + Management Featured Post Machine Learning Accelerate AI Machine Learningposted by Robbie Allen April 12, 2019

There seems to be a skills gap, and a skills misunderstanding, when it comes to Data Science, Engineering, and DevOps as a joint process. At our machine learning consultancy, Infinia ML, we view deployment as a sequential process across teams: (1) Data Science explores data and... Read more

Using NLP and ML to Analyze Legislative Burdens Upon Businesses

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Featured Post Machine Learning NLP/Text Analytics East 2019 Machine Learning NLPposted by Serena Peruzzo April 11, 2019

The process of legal reasoning and decision making is heavily reliant on information stored in text. Tasks like due diligence, contract review, and legal discovery, that are traditionally time-consuming, can be automated, saving a huge amount of time. This makes the development of approaches that leverage... Read more

Why Do Tree Ensembles Work?

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling Statistics Machine Learning Statisticsposted by Joe Ross April 10, 2019

Ensembles of decision trees (e.g., the random forest and AdaBoost algorithms) are powerful and well-known methods of classification and regression. We will survey work aimed at understanding the statistical properties of decision tree ensembles, with the goal of explaining why they work. An elementary probabilistic motivation... Read more

What is TensorFlow?

Machine Learning Modeling Tools & Languages Machine Learning TensorFlowposted by Ralabs April 9, 2019

It would be a challenge nowadays to find a machine learning engineer who has heard nothing about TensorFlow. Initially created by Google Brain team for some internal purposes, such as spam filtering on Gmail, it was open-sourced in 2015 and became the most popular deep learning... Read more