Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
If I have to rate typical conversations with machine learning enthusiasts, following queries usually rank at the top: "How do I pick an algorithm for my dataset?" "How do I know which one is the right algorithm to choose for my problem?" "Does logistic regression makes my dataset looks big?" Well, maybe not that last…
The Fallacies of Data Science
1. Correlation = Causation, and Big Data = Information and Insights because Data Context Doesn't Matter.
2. The random nature of the event drives the distribution, therefore the likely distribution also drive the events.
3. Base Rate Fallacy only applies to small data-sets.
“May the queries flow, and the pager stay silent. —Traditional SRE blessing” Like *.js, DevOps / SRE isn’t completely immune from the dilemma of choice, or confusion as a service as some would like to call. Should it be Nagios or Zabbix or Cacti or Zenoss or Borgmon? Regardless of which tool one decides for monitoring usage,…
Apache Spark is a general purpose cluster computing platform which extends map-reduce to support multiple computation types including but not limited to stream processing and interactive queries. Last week IBM's Moktar Kandil presented at the Tampa Hadoop and Tampa Data Science Group Joint meetup on the topic of exploring Apache Spark. Apache Spark for Azure HD-Insight Following are…
Sam just wrote a precis on Why Facial Recognition Is the Next Big Thing in Marketing which outlines how brands are / can use the facial recognition to increase engagement, and therefore sales. From a machine learning and data science perspective, building algorithms which understand what one's face is really saying i.e. performing emotion analysis to find insight into purchasing patterns…
A friend recently asked about a good book on data science, with python. I have been trying to go through the current landscape of books for a course I am teaching this summer, so here is my recommendation. There are several other good ones out there, but this one quite fits the newbie bill. So…
Pedro Domingos' The Master Algorithm - How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is an interesting and thought provoking book about the state of machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Categorizing, classifying and clearly representing the ideas around any rapidly developing/evolving field is hard job. Machine learning with its…
During a discussion yesterday with software architect extraordinaire David Lazar regarding how everything old is new again, the topic of deep neural networks and its amazing success was brought up. Unless one is living under a rock for past five years, the advancements in artificial neural networks (ANN) has been quite significant and noteworthy. Since the…