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Layer-wise Relevance Propagation Means More Interpretable Deep Learning

Conferences Deep Learning Conferences Deep Learning ODSC Europeposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 5, 2018

Wojciech Samek is head of machine learning for Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. At ODSC Europe 2018, he spoke about an active area of research in deep learning: interpretability. Samek launched his lecture with the following preface on the rising importance of interpretability of deep learning models: “In the last number of... Read more

How to Play Fantasy Sports Strategically (and Win)

Statistics Conferences Dirichlet Distribution Fantasy Football Martin Haugh ODSC Europe Statisticsposted by Paxtyn Merten November 30, 2018

Daily Fantasy Sports is a multibillion-dollar industry with millions of annual users. The Imperial College Business School’s Martin Haugh created a framework to best those users by modeling what they’ll do and constructing a team based on it. Haugh presented his research on how to play Fantasy sports strategically... Read more

Mail Processing with Deep Learning: A Case Study

Conferences Deep Learning Conferences Deep Learning Machine Learning ODSC Europeposted by Paxtyn Merten November 29, 2018

Businesses increasingly delegate simple, boring, and repetitive tasks to artificial intelligence. In a case study, Alexandre Hubert — lead data scientist of software company Dataiku’s U.K. operations — worked on a team of three to automate mail processing with deep learning. At ODSC Europe 2018, Hubert detailed how his team... Read more

Olivier Blais of Moov AI on His Experience as a Speaker at ODSC West 2018

Conferences Conferences ODSC Westposted by Olivier Blais November 29, 2018

I am back from Open Data Science Conference (ODSC West) in California. What a blast! Not only was I able to present my talk on the democratization of AI, but I have learned a lot of very interesting stuff! I honestly am impressed by the projects and technologies presented... Read more

Handling Missing Data in Python/Pandas

Conferences Modeling Python Tools & Languages Conferences ODSC West Pandas Pythonposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC November 21, 2018

Key Takeaways: It’s important to describe missing data and the challenges it poses. You need to clarify a confusing terminology that further adds to the field’s complexity. You should take the time to review methods for handling missing data. You need to learn how to apply robust multiple imputation... Read more

Thomas Wiecki of Quantopian on ‘Minding the Gap’ Between Statistics and Machine Learning at ODSC Europe 2018

Conferences Modeling Statistics Conferences Machine Learning ODSC Europe Statisticsposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC November 20, 2018

Key Takeaways: It’s important for data scientists to understand the so-called “gap” between statistics and machine learning, and how there actually is a lot of commonality between the two; it’s just a matter of how you look at things. PyMC3 is a very useful probabilistic programming framework for Python.... Read more

Active Learning: Your Model’s New Personal Trainer

Conferences Modeling Conferences Machine Learning ODSC Europeposted by Brandon Dey, ODSC November 20, 2018

First, some facts. Fact: active learning is not just another name for reinforcement learning; active learning is not a model; and no, active learning is not deep learning. What active learning is and why it may be an important component of your next machine learning project was the subject... Read more