Classification and Regression Trees (CART) is one of the most used algorithms in Machine Learning, as it appears in Gradient Boosting. This means that the most popular packages like XGBoost and LightGBM are using CART to build trees. Decision Tree is a generic term, and they can be implemented in many ways – don't get the terms mixed, we mean the same thing when we say classification trees, as when we say decision trees. But a decision tree is not necessarily a classification tree, it could also be a regression tree. We will be exploring Gini Impurity, which helps us measure the quality of a ..read more

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This article was first published by IBM Developer at developer.ibm.com, but authored by Casper Hansen. Here is the Direct link. Linear Regression is famously known for being a simple algorithm and a good baseline to compare more complex models to. In this article, we explore the algorithm and turn the math into code, and then we run the code on a dataset, to get predictions on new data. Table Of Contents (Click To Scroll) What Is Linear Regression? Multiple Linear Regression Ordinary Least Squares Measuring Accuracy: R Squared Code For Multiple Linear Regression Special Case 1: Simple Lin ..read more

The inverse of a matrix is not exactly an easy task if you have not yet been introduced to Gaussian Elimination. The inverse of a matrix is used in a large number of algorithms, one of the simplest being Linear Regression. There are two steps to inverting a matrix: Checking if the matrix is invertible by finding the Determinant Inverting the matrix by a Gaussian Elimination variant Gauss-Jordan Table Of Contents (Click To Scroll) Checking If A Matrix Is Invertible Matrix Rank Explained Rank: Linear Combinations Computing Determinant Of Matrix Inverting A Matrix Initializing Gauss-Jorda ..read more

Disclaimer: I am not a medical, radiology or epidemiology professional. This article was an experiment, from an engineering and data scientist perspective, and should be regarded as such. To apply Deep Learning for COVID-19, we need a good dataset – one with lots of samples, edge cases, metadata, and different looking images. We want our model to generalize to the data, such that it can make accurate predictions on new, unseen data. All the work for this article is available on GitHub. Unfortunately, not much data is available, but there are already posts on LinkedIn/Medium claiming >90% o ..read more

This article was first published by IBM Developer at developer.ibm.com, but authored by Casper Hansen. Here is the Direct link. Creating complex neural networks with different architectures in Python should be a standard practice for any Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist. But a genuine understanding of how a neural network works is equally as valuable. This is what we aim to expand on in this article, the very fundamentals on how we can build neural networks, without the help of the frameworks that make it easy for us. Please open the notebook from GitHub and run the code alongside ..read more

Deployment is perhaps one of the most overlooked topics in the Machine Learning world. But it most certainly is important, if you want to get into the industry as a Machine Learning Engineer (MLE). In this article, we will take a sober look at how painless this process can be, if you just know the small ins and outs of the technologies involved in deployment. All the files for this project are available on GitHub, and you can perhaps use this project as a Hello World application, such that you have something running and later on replace it with something more complex. Table of Contents (Click ..read more

This article was first published by IBM Developer at developer.ibm.com, but authored by Casper Hansen. Here is the Direct link. Sometimes you discover small tips and tricks to improve your code and make life easier for yourself, e.g. better maintainability, efficiency etc. — well this is one of those improvements to your machine learning, except it’s essential and takes an extra thought to implement. The goal is to introduce you, the developer, to stacking in machine learning. Using your own models, you will learn how to apply stacking to your own datasets. Follow this article and get better r ..read more

Perhaps one of the most common algorithms in Kaggle competitions, and machine learning in general, is the random forest algorithm. It performs well in almost all scenarios and is mostly impossible to overfit, which is probably why it is popular to use. Here, I will be explaining decision trees shortly, then giving you a function in Python. Table of Contents 1.Decision Trees explained 2.Example of Gini Impurity 3.Shortcomings of Decision Trees 4.Random Forest explained 5.Code: GridSearchCV with Random Forest Regression Decision Trees Decision trees has three types of nodes. There is the roo ..read more

I thought, how can we angle "Web Scraping for Machine Learning", and I realized that Web Scraping should be essential to Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers. The Full Stack AI/ML Engineer toolkit needs to include web scraping, because it can improve predictions with new quality data. Machine Learning inherently requires data, and we would be most comfortable, if we have as much high quality data as possible. But what about when the data you need is not available as a dataset? What then? Do you just go and ask organizations and hope that they kindly will deliver it to ..read more