Essential Math for Data Science: Visual Introduction to Singular Value Deco

This article will cover singular value decomposition (SVD), which is a major topic of linear algebra, data science, and machine learning.

This article will cover singular value decomposition (SVD), which is a major topic of linear algebra, data science, and machine learning.

A preview into one of the most prominent data science applications

How to select control variables for causal inference using Directed Acyclic Graphs

We’ll show how to use the DID model to estimate the effect of hurricanes on house prices

Understanding the model’s output plays a major role in business-driven projects, and Sobol can help

Reproducibility is critical for robust data science — after all, it is a science.

The curse of dimensionality comes into play when we deal with a lot of data having many dimensions or features.
Making a survival analysis can be a challenge even for experienced R users, but the good news is I’ll help you make beautiful, publication-quality survival plots in under 10-minutes. Here’s what WE are going to do: Make your first survival model an...

Introduction to the most popular performance evaluation metrics for survival analysis along with practical Python examples


Introducing dart, gblinear, and XGBoost Random Forests

Evaluating similarity of visual art from both human perceptual & quantitative judgments
I show toy implementations of Python decorator patterns that may be useful for Data Scientists.
The introduction of the intel sklearn extension. Make your Random Forest even faster than XGBoost.
Which is the best algorithm?

Six matrix factorizations dominate in numerical linear algebra and matrix analysis: for most purposes one of them is sufficient for the task at hand. We summarize them here. For each factorization …

How you can pull one of a few dozen example political, sporting, education, and other frames on-the-fly.
An initial look into the method best suited for examining time-to-event data
Focal loss is said to perform better than Cross-Entropy loss in many cases. But why Cross-Entropy loss fails, and how Focal loss addresses…
Uncovering the secret behind why breads are always conveniently placed beside butter in groceries

The Shazam music recognition application made it finally possible to put a name to that song on the radio. But how does this magical miracle actually work? In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jovan Jovanovic sheds light on the principles of audio signal…

Apply Louvain’s Algorithm in Python for Community Detection

Under the new machine learning model, buyers are recommended items that are more aligned to their shopping interests on eBay.

Learn how the SHAP library works under the hood
Intuition, Bayes, and an example

Why to learn these graph algorithms? Graph algorithms are a set of instructions that...

Use these three tools to understand the usefulness of your machine learning models
aka "Bayesian Methods for Hackers": An introduction to Bayesian methods + probabilistic programming with a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view. All i...


This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get…

They can help you get an appointment or order a pizza, find the best ticket deals and bring your...

How to optimize the hyperparameters of a machine learning model and how to speed up the process
Managing Machine Learning Lifecycle made easy — explained with Python examples
Easily learn to track all of your ML experiments with metrics and logs with an example project walkthrough!

No metric is perfect.

Natural Language Processing with Python, Gensim, Tensorflow, Transformers

A Comprehensive Guide to SHAP and Shapley Values
As a data analyst at Microsoft, I must investigate and understand time-series data every day. Besides looking at some key performance…

How we used NeRF to embed our entire 3D object catalogue to a shared latent space, and what it means for the future of graphics

Introduction
We are excited to announce TorchRec, a PyTorch domain library for Recommendation Systems. This new library provides common sparsity and parallelism primitives, enabling researchers to build state-of-the-art personalization models and deploy them in production.

A dive into fundamentals of learning representations beyond feature vectors

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on using data and algorithms to mimic the way people learn, progressively improving its accuracy. This way, Machine Learning is one of the most interesting methods in Computer…

Topic modeling can bring NLP to the next level. Here’s how.
We need to know what colors our merch is. But because downstream users include many different people and algorithms, we need to describe colors as a hierarch...

Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together.

Because Graph Analytics is the future