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Background In late 2017, I started to develop interest in the Machine Learning field. I talked about my experience when I started my journey. In summary, it has been filled with fun challenges and lots of learning. I am an Android Engineer, and this is my experience working on ML projects with our data scientist. … Read more I Worked With A Data Scientist, Here’s What I Learned.

In my daily work as a data scientist, I often have the need to integrate relatively complex plots into back-office applications. These plots are mainly used to illustrate algorithmic decisions and give data intuitions to operational departments. A possible approach here would be to build an API that returns data and let the front-end of … Read more Python Plotting API: Expose your scientific python plots through a flask API

2. Categorical Analysis We can start reading the data using pd.read_csv() . By doing a .head() on the data frame, we could have a quick peek at the top 5 rows of our data. For those who are not familiar with pandas or the concept of a data frame, I would highly recommend spending half a day … Read more A Starter Pack to Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, pandas, seaborn, and scikit-Learn

How text summarization works In general there are two types of summarization, abstractive and extractive summarization. Abstractive Summarization: Abstractive methods select words based on semantic understanding, even those words did not appear in the source documents. It aims at producing important material in a new way. They interpret and examine the text using advanced natural … Read more Understand Text Summarization and create your own summarizer in python

Control flow: The code above has a section which runs all the code. We consider default values for most of the important parameters such as player name, ps1 and ps2, and bigpoint1 and bigpoint2. I liked to think of ps1 and ps2 as first serve percentage but we can do a lot of interesting feature … Read more Simulating Tennis Matches with Python or Moneyball for Tennis

Learning Phrases From Unsupervised Text (Collocation Extraction) We can easily create bi-grams with our unsupervised corpus and take it as an input to Word2Vec. For example, the sentence “I walked today to the park” will be converted to “I_walked walked_today today_to to_the the_park” and each bi-gram will be treated as a uni-gram in the Word2Vec … Read more Word2Vec For Phrases — Learning Embeddings For More Than One Word

Just like a watched pot never boils, a watched for loop never ends. When dealing with large datasets, even the simplest operations can take hours. Progress bars can help make data processing jobs less of a headache because: You get a reliable estimate of how long it will take. You can see immediately if it’s … Read more Progress Bars in Python

Reduce training time for deep neural networks by using many GPUs Marenostrum Supercomputer — Barcelona Supercomputing Center https://bsc.es (This post will be used in my master course SA-MIRI at UPC Barcelona Tech with the support of Barcelona Supercomputing Center) “Methods that scale with computation are the future of Artificial Intelligence” — Rich Sutton, father of reinforcement learning (video 4:49) In … Read more Distributed TensorFlow using Horovod

Flask API, Document Classification, Spam Filter By far, we have developed many machine learning models, generated numeric predictions on the testing data, and tested the results. And we did everything offline. In reality, generating predictions is only part of a machine learning project, although it is the most important part in my opinion. Considering a system … Read more Develop a NLP Model in Python & Deploy It with Flask, Step by Step

The profession of reality is moving into the 21st century, and as you can imagine home listings are flooding the internet. If you have ever looked at buying a home, renting an apartment, or just wanted to see what the most expensive home in town is (we have all been there), then chances are you … Read more Simple House Price Predictor using ML through TensorFlow in Python

Introduction to Plotly Plotly is a company that makes visualization tools including a Python API library. (Plotly also makes Dash, a framework for building interactive web-based applications with Python code). For this article, we’ll stick to working with the plotly Python library in a Jupyter Notebook and touching up images in the online plotly editor. When … Read more Introduction to Interactive Time Series Visualizations with Plotly in Python

Find specific elements in the page The created BeautifulSoup object can now be used to find elements in the HTML. When we inspected the website we saw that every list item in the content section has a class that starts with tocsection- and we can us BeautifulSoup’s find_all method to find all list items with that … Read more Introduction to Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup

A recurring subject in NLP is to understand large corpus of texts through topic extraction. Whether you analyze users’ online reviews, product descriptions, or text entered in search bars, understanding key topics will always come in handy. Popular picture explaining LDA Before going into the LDA method, let me remind you that not reinventing the … Read more The complete guide for topics extraction with LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) in Python

Alright, better to implement PCA to get the image. Let’s start by making 5 *10 matrix, and take steps of the process. Matrix X import numpy as npX = np.random.rand(5,10) The column are variables (characteristics) and the row are samples(say, ‘cat’ or ‘dog’). What we want to do with this matrix is to get eigenvalues … Read more Unpacking (**PCA)

For aspiring data scientist it might sometimes be difficult to find their way through the forest of preprocessing techniques. Sklearn its preprocessing library forms a solid foundation to guide you through this important task in the data science pipeline. Although Sklearn a has pretty solid documentation, it often misses streamline and intuition between different concepts. … Read more Preprocessing with sklearn: a complete and comprehensive guide

An Application of Sequence Model to Mine Waze Open Data of Traffic Incidents, using Python and Keras. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use RNN deep learning model to find patterns from Waze Traffic Open Data of Incidents Report, and predict if severe traffic jams will happen shortly. Interventions can be taken out … Read more How to Predict Severe Traffic Jams with Python and Recurrent Neural Networks?

So… no pandas ?? There are some issues with pandas that the original author Wes McKinney outlines in his insightful blogpost: “Apache Arrow and the “10 Things I Hate About pandas”. Many of these issues will be tackled in the next version of pandas (pandas2?), building on top of Apache Arrow and other libraries. Vaex starts … Read more Vaex: Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization

Objective Companies nowadays use music classification, either to be able to place recommendations to their customers (such as Spotify, Soundcloud) or simply as a product (for example Shazam). Determining music genres is the first step in that direction. Machine Learning techniques have proved to be quite successful in extracting trends and patterns from the large … Read more Music Genre Classification with Python

Hermione interrupted them. “Aren’t you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?” How many times throughout the Harry Potter series does Hermione bug Harry and Ron to read the enormous tome Hogwarts, A History? Hint: it’s a lot. How many nights do the three of them spend in the library, reading through every book … Read more Text Summarization on the Books of Harry Potter

Photo credit: Lynda.com Conditional Random Fields, Sequence Prediction, Sequence Labelling Parsing XML is a process that is designed to read XML and create a way for programs to use XML. An XML parser is the piece of software that reads XML files and makes the information from those files available to applications. While reading an … Read more Parsing XML, Named Entity Recognition in One-Shot

Introduction As a data scientist, I often find myself looking for external data sources that could be relevant for my machine learning projects. The problem is that it is uncommon to find open source data sets that perfectly correspond to what you are looking for, or free APIs that give you access to data. In … Read more An introduction to web scraping with Python

Detecting multiple objects in images and tracking them in videos In my previous story, I went over how to train an image classifier in PyTorch, with your own images, and then use it for image recognition. Now I’ll show you how to use a pre-trained classifier to detect multiple objects in an image, and later track … Read more Object detection and tracking in PyTorch

In the previous part (Part I) of the word representation series, I talked about fixed word representations that make no assumption about semantics (meaning) and similarity of words. In this part, I will describe a family of distributed word representations. The main idea is to represent words as feature vectors. Each entry in vector stands … Read more Word Representation in Natural Language Processing Part II

Deploying a Python app in Heroku! Do you like Data Science? <Shakes head up and down> Do you like Data Science DIY deployment? <Shakes head left and right> Me neither. One of the most frustrating parts of early data science learning or personal work is deploying an app through free cloud applications. Your code is juuust … Read more I Can Be Your Heroku, Baby

A hands on guide for beginners on EDA and Data Science competitions Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an approach to analysing data sets to summarize their main characteristics, often with visual methods. Following are the different steps involved in EDA : Data Collection Data Cleaning Data Preprocessing Data Visualisation Data Collection Data collection is the process … Read more Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) techniques for kaggle competition beginners

Nov 5, 2018 What is PyTorch? It’s a Python-based package to serve as a replacement for Numpy arrays and to provide a flexible library forDeep Learning Development Platform. As for the why I prefer PyTorch over TensorFLow can be learned from this Fast AI’s blog post for the reason to switch to PyTorch. Or simply put, … Read more PyTorch 101 for Dummies like Me

Basic concepts and mathematics There are two kinds of variables in a linear regression model: The input or predictor variable is the variable(s) that help predict the value of the output variable. It is commonly referred to as X. The output variable is the variable that we want to predict. It is commonly referred to … Read more Introduction to Linear Regression in Python

Now, back to our formula 3.49: The definition of Entropy for a probability distribution (from The Deep Learning Book) I(x) is the information content of X. I(x) itself is a random variable. In our example, the possible outcomes of the War. Thus, H(x) is the expected value of every possible information. Using the definition of expected … Read more The intuition behind Shannon’s Entropy

Sep 29, 2018 Nearly all sectors use time series data to forecast future time points. Forecasting future can assist analysts and management in making better calculated decisions to maximise returns and minimise risks. I will be demonstrating how we can forecast exchange rates in this article. If you are new to finance and want to … Read more Forecasting Exchange Rates Using ARIMA In Python

Aug 29, 2018 Picture taken from Pixabay In this post and the next, we will look at one of the trickiest and most critical problems in Machine Learning (ML): Hyper-parameter tuning. After reviewing what hyper-parameters, or hyper-params for short, are and how they differ from plain vanilla learnable parameters, we introduce three general purpose discrete optimization … Read more Doing XGBoost hyper-parameter tuning the smart way — Part 1 of 2

Aug 28, 2018 Image quality is a notion that highly depends on observers. Generally, it is linked to the conditions in which it is viewed; therefore, it is a highly subjective topic. Image quality assessment aims to quantitatively represent the human perception of quality. These metrics are commonly used to analyze the performance of algorithms in … Read more Automatic Image Quality Assessment in Python

Jul 8, 2018 In this tutorial we will discuss about integrating PySpark and XGBoost using a standard machine learing pipeline. We will use data from the Titanic: Machine learning from disaster one of the many Kaggle competitions. Before getting started please know that you should be familiar with Apache Spark and Xgboost and Python. The … Read more PySpark ML and XGBoost full integration tested on the Kaggle Titanic dataset

Oct 29, 2016 Update: April 29, 2019. Updated some of the code to not use ggplot but instead use seaborn and matplotlib. I also added an example for a 3d-plot. I also changed the syntax to work with Python3. The first step around any data related challenge is to start by exploring the data itself. … Read more Visualising high-dimensional datasets using PCA and t-SNE in Python