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A Step by Step Gradient Boosting Example for Classification

Gradient boosting machines might be confusing for beginners. Even though most of resources say that GBM can handle both regression…

classification, cross entropy, decision tree, gbm, gradient boosting, iris, softmax

How Pruning Works in Decision Trees

Decision tree algorithms create understandable and readable decision rules. This is one of most important advantage of this motivation. This…

decision tree, overfitting, pruning

A Gentle Introduction to LightGBM for Applied Machine Learning

It is a fact that decision tree based machine learning algorithms dominate Kaggle competitions. More than half of the winning solutions…

decision tree, gbm, gradient boosting, lightgbm, xgboost

A Step by Step Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Example

Adoption of decision trees is mainly based on its transparent decisions. Also, they overwhelmingly over-perform in applied machine learning studies.…

decision tree, gbm, gradient boosting

Large Scale Machine Learning with Pandas

We often store the training data set in memory and transfer it to learning algorithm. Mostly, numpy handles data manipulation…

large scale, pandas

A Beginner’s Guide to TensorFlow.js: Machine Lerning in JavaScript

We can do magnificent things with TensorFlow such as face recognition, facial expression recognition and computer vision. However, its main intent…

javascript, node js

10 Interview Questions Asked in Machine Learning

Machine learning still occupies the peak place in Gartner hype cycle in 2017. Beyond anything, Glassdoor reports that data scientist…

interview

Face Recognition with FaceNet in Keras

Google announced FaceNet as its deep learning based face recognition model. It was built on the Inception model. We have been familiar…

autoencoder, face recognition, google, transfer learning

Hyperbolic Secant As Neural Networks Activation Function

Hyperbolic functions are common activation functions in neural networks. Previously, we have mentioned hyperbolic tangent as activation function. Now, we…

activation function

A Step By Step Regression Tree Example

Decision trees are powerful way to classify problems. On the other hand, they can be adapted into regression problems, too. Decision…

cart, decision tree, regression

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