Data Science Platforms: Guides, Tutorials,, and How to Pick the Best One

While you wait for that to finish, can I interest you in parallel processing?

Platforms Tools Tools & Languagesposted by Max Kuhn January 27, 2018

caret has been able to utilize parallel processing for some time (before it was on CRAN in October 2007) using slightly different versions of the package. Around September of 2011, caret started using the foreach package was used to “harmonize” the parallel processing technologies thanks to a super smart guy named Steve Weston.... Read more

Throne AI is the Kaggle of Sports Predictions

Modeling Platforms Predictive Analytics Tools & Languagesposted by George McIntire, ODSC January 18, 2018

My big obsession of 2018 so far is sports prediction platform Throne AI. There’s no better way to describe than Kaggle for sports. The platform provides users with data with which they use to build models to predict the outcome of sports matches. Each league on... Read more

Data Science Experience – a review

Platforms Tech News Tech Updates Tools Tools & Languagesposted by Nikolay Manchev January 18, 2018

It’s been a couple of weeks since I got accepted in the closed beta testing programme for IBM Data Science Experience (DSX), and it is about time I share my thoughts on this offering.DSX is a new product, which IBM is positioning as a new generation Data Science... Read more

How Companies Use TensorFlow for Their AI Needs

Deep Learning Modeling Platforms Tools Tools & Languagesposted by George McIntire, ODSC December 27, 2017

In a previous article, we discussed the origin story and history of the Python deep learning library TensorFlow. It’s experienced a monumental rise like nothing seen before, in just two years since its debut it currently holds the title of the most forked repo on GitHub.... Read more

You weren’t supposed to actually implement it, Google

Blog Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Platforms Tools & Languages Life|Machine Learningposted by Rob Speer November 28, 2017

Last month, I wrote a blog post warning about how, if you follow popular trends in NLP, you can easily accidentally make a classifier that is pretty racist. To demonstrate this, I included the very simple code, as a “cautionary tutorial.” The post got a fair amount... Read more

Analytics and Beyond!

Platforms Tools & Languages ODSC Europe 2017posted by Rosaria Silipo November 9, 2017

When I talk to young data science graduates, I often feel that they can train a deep learning model in 5 minutes, but have no idea where to go from there. After and before the model training and evaluation part, there is this big grey area... Read more

Problems with ImageNet and its Solutions

Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by Aaron Schumacher October 7, 2017

The ImageNet challenges play an important role in the development of computer vision. The great success of neural nets on ImageNet has contributed to general fervor around artificial intelligence. While the applied breakthroughs are real, issues with ImageNet and modern networks indicate gaps between current practice and intelligent perception. For... Read more

How to Geolocate your Analysis

Platforms Tools Tools & Languagesposted by Diego Arenas, ODSC September 28, 2017

In this post, I’ll tell you how to geolocate your analysis using the Geopy. Geopy is a Python 2 and 3 library, that provides connections to the most popular geocoding services. Why bother to geolocate your data? Because if you use latitude and longitude data, you... Read more

Time series classification with Tensorflow

Modeling Platforms Predictive Analytics Tools & Languages TensorFlow|Time Seriesposted by Burak Himmetoglu August 28, 2017

Time-series data arise in many fields including finance, signal processing, speech recognition and medicine. A standard approach to time-series problems usually requires manual engineering of features which can then be fed into a machine learning algorithm. Engineering of features generally requires some domain knowledge of the... Read more

Julia 0.5 Highlights

Platforms Tools & Languagesposted by Julia Computing May 10, 2017

To follow along with the examples in this blog post and run them live, you can go to JuliaBox, create a free login, and open the “Julia 0.5 Highlights” notebook under “What’s New in 0.5”. The notebook can also be downloaded from here. Julia 0.5 is... Read more