Page Rank
The year: 1998. The size of the web: 150 million pages. The problem: information retrieval. How do you find the "best" web pages to return in response to a query? A graduate student named Larry Pa...
5 Juni 201719min
Fractional Dimensions
We chat about fractional dimensions, and what the actual heck those are.
29 Maj 201720min
Things You Learn When Building Models for Big Data
As more and more data gets collected seemingly every day, and data scientists use that data for modeling, the technical limits associated with machine learning on big datasets keep getting pushed back...
22 Maj 201721min
How to Find New Things to Learn
If you're anything like us, you a) always are curious to learn more about data science and machine learning and stuff, and b) are usually overwhelmed by how much content is out there (not all of it ve...
15 Maj 201717min
Federated Learning
As machine learning makes its way into more and more mobile devices, an interesting question presents itself: how can we have an algorithm learn from training data that's being supplied as users inter...
8 Maj 201714min
Word2Vec
Word2Vec is probably the go-to algorithm for vectorizing text data these days. Which makes sense, because it is wicked cool. Word2Vec has it all: neural networks, skip-grams and bag-of-words impleme...
1 Maj 201717min
Feature Processing for Text Analytics
It seems like every day there's more and more machine learning problems that involve learning on text data, but text itself makes for fairly lousy inputs to machine learning algorithms. That's why th...
24 Apr 201717min
Education Analytics
This week we'll hop into the rapidly developing industry around predictive analytics for education. For many of the students who eventually drop out, data science is showing that there might be early...
17 Apr 201721min
