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Machine Learning Guide: 20 Free ODSC Resources to Learn Machine Learning

Uncategorized Machine Learningposted by Alex Landa, ODSC January 11, 2019

Machine learning, as with many other topics within data science, involves many skills, tools, languages, frameworks, and more. The #ODSC Machine Learning Guide is our compendium of 20 free resources for you to get started with machine learning, including videos from past ODSC machine learning presentations,... Read more

The Need For Mission Critical Text Analytics

Business + Management Government Machine Learning Natural Language Processing NLPposted by ODSC Team January 8, 2019

“There’s simply too much textual information available for human beings to find or analyze it by themselves. Machines must help,” said Chris Biow, the senior vice president of Global Public Sector at Basis Technology. A 20-year text analytics veteran, Biow started his career in the space... Read more

How to Fix Data Leakage – Your Model’s Greatest Enemy

Modeling Conferences data leakage Machine Learning ODSC Londonposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC January 7, 2019

At ODSC London 2018, Yuriy Guts of DataRobot gave a talk on data leakage, including potential sources of the problem and how it can be remedied. Data leakage – also sometimes referred to as data snooping – is a phenomenon in machine learning that occurs when... Read more

Reviewing Amazon’s Machine Learning University – Is it Worth All of the Hype?

Featured Post Modeling Amazon Machine Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC January 2, 2019

As an educator in the field of data science, I’m always interested in new learning resources for machine learning. The industry needs a new crop of data scientists to fill the rising demand. This is why I was pleased to learn of the recent announcement of... Read more

10 Tips to Get Started with Kaggle

Modeling Google Kaggle Machine Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 17, 2018

Kaggle is a well-known community website for data scientists to compete in machine learning challenges. Competitive machine learning can be a great way to hone your skills, as well as demonstrate your skills. In this article, I will provide 10 useful tips to get started with... Read more

The Data Scientist’s Holy Grail – Labeled Data Sets

Modeling Tools & Languages Workflow Labeled Data Machine Learningposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 14, 2018

The Holy Grail for data scientists is the ability to obtain labeled data sets for the purpose of training a supervised machine learning algorithm. An algorithm’s ability to “learn” is based on training it using a labeled training set – having known response variable values that... 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... 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... 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... Read more

Three Machine Learning Practices That Keep Your Identity Safe

Business + Management Machine Learningposted by Paxtyn Merten November 6, 2018

As privacy concerns escalate in the age of big data, developers constantly evolve artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to keep your identity safe. Machine learning systems enable businesses to more effectively identify fraud and keep user information safe. These systems gather data that can provide... Read more