This is guest post contributed by Matt Dancho, CEO of Business Science. The post was originally published on the Business Science blog. Customer churn is a problem that all companies need to monitor, especially those that depend on subscript...

How do New Year's Eve fireworks impact the environment? - A few days before the new year 2018 I saw this tweet from Deutschlandfunk Nova: 4000 Tonnen Feinstaub ballern wir an nur einem einzigen Abend in die Luft. Das sind 15% der Menge, die jährlich im Straßenverkehr abgegeben wird. Prost, Neujahr! #...

By Gabriel Vasconcelos When dealing with forecasting models there is an issue that generates a lot of confusion, which is the difference between direct and recursive forecasts. I believe most people are more used to recursive forecasts because they are … Continue reading →

The property market in London SW10 is weak. But planning applications are in the ascendency. Is this how home owners are adding space? The post SW10 digs deep appeared first on thinkr.

Let’s admit it. The whole world has been going crazy with Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC), the first cryptocurrency (in fact, the first digital currency to solve the double-spend problem) introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto has become bigger than well-established firms (even a few countries). So, a lot of Bitcoin Enthusiasts and ...

Imagine you were to buy a car, would you just go to a store and buy the first one that you see? No, right? You usually consult few people around you, take their opinion, add your research to it and then go for the final decision. Let’s take a ...

Search syntax Corpus search Search summary KWIC & BOW Summary and shiny This post demonstrates the use of a simple collection of functions from my R-package corpuslingr. Functions streamline two sets of corpus linguistics tasks: annotated corpus search of grammatical constructions and complex lexical patterns in context, and detailed summary and ...

With the release of the new version of mlrMBO we added some minor fixes and added a practical feature called Human-in-the-loop MBO. It enables you to sequentially visualize the state of the surrogate model, obtain the suggested parameter configuration for the next iteration and update the surrogate model with arbitrary ...

Logistic regression produces result that are typically interpreted in one of two ways: Predicted probabilities Odds ratios Odds are the ratio of the probability that something happens to the probabilty it doesn’t happen. \[ \Omega(X) = \frac{p(y=1|X)}{1-p(y=1|X)} \] An odds ratio is the ratio of ...

Overview We are excited to announce the availability of the cloudml package, which provides an R interface to Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine. CloudML provides a number of services including: Scalable training of models built with th...

These are my sketchnotes taken from the “This week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast number 88 about Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #88: Using Deep Learning...