The 19-year-old determining the US election
Sick of the presidential election yet? We are too, but there's still almost a month to go, so let's just embrace it together. This week, we'll talk about one of the presidential polls, which has bee...
17 Okt 201612min
How to Steal a Model
What does it mean to steal a model? It means someone (the thief, presumably) can re-create the predictions of the model without having access to the algorithm itself, or the training data. Sound far...
9 Okt 201613min
Regularization
Lots of data is usually seen as a good thing. And it is a good thing--except when it's not. In a lot of fields, a problem arises when you have many, many features, especially if there's a somewhat s...
3 Okt 201617min
The Cold Start Problem
You might sometimes find that it's hard to get started doing something, but once you're going, it gets easier. Turns out machine learning algorithms, and especially recommendation engines, feel the s...
26 Sep 201615min
Open Source Software for Data Science
If you work in tech, software or data science, there's an excellent chance you use tools that are built upon open source software. This is software that's built and distributed not for a profit, but ...
19 Sep 201620min
Scikit + Optimization = Scikit-Optimize
We're excited to welcome a guest, Tim Head, who is one of the maintainers of the scikit-optimize package. With all the talk about optimization lately, it felt appropriate to get in a few words with s...
12 Sep 201615min
Two Cultures: Machine Learning and Statistics
It's a funny thing to realize, but data science modeling is usually about either explainability, interpretation and understanding, or it's about predictive accuracy. But usually not both--optimizing ...
5 Sep 201617min
Optimization Solutions
You've got an optimization problem to solve, and a less-than-forever amount of time in which to solve it. What do? Use a heuristic optimization algorithm, like a hill climber or simulated annealing-...
29 Aug 201620min
