Importance of Feature Importance
Feature Importance is a technique in machine learning that assigns a score to the input features based on how useful they are at predicting a target output. But how do I know which features to keep …
Tug of War Between Precision & Recall
Why model accuracy alone isn’t okay Imagine if you are working on a dataset to detect credit card fraud in which there is no fraudulent activity in 99% of the observations. It is easy to make …
Customer Recommendation Engine
This article is about a machine learning project that created a recommendation engine that is useful for any retail business such as car sales or a grocery store that has to generate recommendations of the right …
High School Computer Science Pains
Many students are hesitant to immerse themselves in computer science. They may think to themselves, “I don’t know where to start” and may be discouraged by the thought of the amount of time and dedication the …
Model Factory for Modeling at Scale
Company Two Hat Security is a Canadian technology company that uses Artificial Intelligence to moderate content and filter profanity for its global clients. Their developers and data scientists make custom machine learning models to automate content moderation. …
Thousand-Algorithm Developer
Meet Dr. Padma Polash Paul, a man whose efforts in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning led to the development of mlOS – the machine learning Operating System. mlOS is a platform to build, …
Predict strength against COVID-19
The novel coronavirus is causing havoc all over the world! I read the news that Italy has been in the middle of this with more than 47,000 infections and 4,000 deaths as of yesterday. The health …
Synthetic wireline logs in O&G reservoirs
Well-logging plays an important role not only in petroleum exploration and exploitation but also in groundwater, mining, environmental, geotechnical and research applications. These logs measure porosity, resistivity, density, conductivity, saturation, etc. of subsurface rocks. Few logs …
Is Digital Labor a Threat or Opportunity?
On hearing the term “Artificial Intelligence”, the majority of us think about robotic post-apocalypse movies. And even though we enjoyed watching Will Smith’s performance in “I, Robot”, the fear of robots taking over the world is …
Does Digital Require Radical Disruption?
Digitalization is often associated with disruption. Because of this, managers believe that digital transformation means a dramatic change to their company’s value proposition. They therefore end up investigating non-existent customer needs and try serving them with …