Tag Archives: ai
What is Machine Learning? Concepts & Examples
Machine learning is a machine’s ability to learn from data. It has been around for decades, but machine learning is now being applied in nearly every industry and job function. In this blog post, we’ll cover what machine learning entails, how it differs from traditional programming. What is machine learning? Simply speaking, machine learning is a technology where in machine learns to perform a prediction/estimation task based on past experience represented by historical data set. There are three key aspects of machine learning which are following: Task: Task can be related to prediction problems Experience: Experience represents historical dataset Performance: The goal is to perform better in the prediction task …
Graph Neural Networks Explained with Examples
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a relatively new area in the field of deep learning. They arose from graph theory and machine learning, where the graph is a mathematical structure that models pairwise relations between objects. Graph Neural Networks are able to learn graph structures for different data sets, which means they can generalize well to new datasets – this makes them an ideal choice for many real-world problems like social network analysis or financial risk prediction. This post will cover some of the key concepts behind graph neural networks with the help of multiple examples. What are graph neural networks (GNNs)? Graphs are data structures which are used to …
Drug Discovery & Deep Learning: A Starter Guide
The drug discovery process is tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. A drug company has to identify the compounds that are most likely to be successful in drug development. The drug discovery process can take up to 15 years with an average cost of $1 billion for each drug candidate that passes clinical trials. With AI and deep learning models becoming more popular in recent years, scientists have been looking at ways to use these tools in the drug discovery process. This article will explore how deep learning generative models (GANs) could be used as a starting point for data scientists to get started drug discovery AI projects! What is the drug …
Supplier risk management & machine learning techniques
Supplier risk management (SRM) is a serious issue for procurement professionals. Suppliers can be unreliable, have poor quality products, or fail to meet specifications. In this blog post we will discuss AI / machine learning algorithms / techniques that you can use to manage supplier risk and make your procurement process more efficient. What is supplier risk management? Supplier Risk Management (SRM) also known as Supplier Risk Optimization (SRO), refers to policies and technology that enables organizations to manage risks related with suppliers. This can be done by analyzing data about past purchases from the supplier, predicting future risks related with purchases from this particular company. It’s crucial for procurement …
Online AI News from Top Global Universities – List
In this post, you will get an access to a list of web pages representing latest news related to artificial intelligence from top universities across the globe. This page will be updated from time-to-time for including new pages from different universities across the globe. These URLs will be very useful for those machine learning / data science enthusiasts who want to keep tab on current news and events in the field of artificial intelligence. MIT Stanford Stanford university – Human-centered AI (HAI) Stanford university – Center for AI in medicine and imaging Stanford AI research and ideas Harvard university JHU Malone center for Engg. in healthcare Yale university Princeton university …
Different Success / Evaluation Metrics for AI / ML Products
In this post, you will learn about some of the common success metrics which can be used for measuring the success of AI / ML (machine learning) / DS (data science) initiatives / products. If you are one of the AI / ML stakeholders, you would want to get hold of these metrics in order to apply right metrics in right business use cases. Business leaders do want to know and maximise the return on investments (ROI) from AI / ML investments. Here is the list of success metrics for AI / DS / ML initiatives: Business value metrics / Key performance indicators (KPIs): Business value metrics such as operating …
Predictive vs Prescriptive Analytics Difference
In this post, you will quickly learn about the difference between predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics. As data analytics stakeholders, one must get a good understanding of these concepts in order to decide when to apply predictive and when to make use of prescriptive analytics in analytics solutions / applications. Without further ado, let’s get straight to the diagram. In the above diagram, you could observe / learn the following: Predictive analytics: In predictive analytics, the model is trained using historical / past data based on supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning algorithms. Once trained, the new data / observation is input to the trained model. The output of the model is prediction in form …
NLTK – How to Read & Process Text File
In this post, you will learn about the how to read one or more text files using NLTK and process words contained in the text file. As data scientists starting to work on NLP, the Python code sample for reading multiple text files from local storage will be very helpful. Python Code Sample for Reading Text File using NLTK Here is the Python code sample for reading one or more text files. Pay attention to some of the following aspects: Class nltk.corpus.PlaintextCorpusReader reader is used for reading the text file. The constructor takes input parameter such as corpus root and the regular expression representing the files. List of files that are read could be found using method such as fileids List …
10 Key Challenges for AI / ML Projects Implementation
In this post, you will learn about some of the key challenges in relation to achieving successful AI / ML projects implementation in a consistent and sustained manner. As AI / ML project stakeholders including senior management stakeholders, data science architects, product managers etc, you must get a good understanding of what would it take to successfully execute AI / ML projects and create value for the customers and the business. Either you are building AI / ML products or enabling unique models for your clients in SaaS setup, you will come across most of these challenges. Here are some of the key challenges: Whether a machine learning solution is …
Python – Extract Text from HTML using BeautifulSoup
In this post, you will learn about how to use Python BeautifulSoup and NLTK to extract words from HTML pages and perform text analysis such as frequency distribution. The example in this post is based on reading HTML pages directly from the website and performing text analysis. However, you could also download the web pages and then perform text analysis by loading pages from local storage. Python Code for Extracting Text from HTML Pages Here is the Python code for extracting text from HTML pages and perform text analysis. Pay attention to some of the following in the code given below: URLLib request is used to read the html page …
Python – Extract Text from PDF file using PDFMiner
In this post, you will get a quick code sample on how to use PDFMiner, a Python library, to extract text from PDF files and perform text analysis. I will be posting several other posts in relation to how to use other Python libraries for extracting text from PDF files. In this post, the following topic will get covered: How to set up PDFMiner Python code for extracting text from PDF file using PDFMiner Setting up PDFMiner Here is how you would set up PDFMiner.six. You could execute the following command to get set up with PDFMiner while working in Jupyter notebook: Python Code for Extracting Text from PDF file …
NLTK Hello World Python Example
In this post, you will learn about getting started with natural language processing (NLP) with NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit), a platform to work with human languages using Python language. The post is titled hello world because it helps you get started with NLTK while also learning some important aspects of processing language. In this post, the following will be covered: Install / Set up NLTK Common NLTK commands for language processing operations Install / Set up NLTK This is what you need to do set up NLTK. Make sure you have Python latest version set up as NLTK requires Python version 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, or 3.8 to be set up. In Jupyter notebook, you could execute …
8 Key AI Challenges for Telemedicine / Telehealth
In this post, you will learn about some of key challenges of implementing Telemedicine / Telehealth. In case you are working in the field of data science / machine learning, you may want to go through some of the challenges, primarily AI related, which is thrown in Telemedicine domain due to upsurge in need of reliable Telemedicine services. Here are the slides I recently presented in Digital Data Science Conclave hosted by KIIT University. The primary focus is to make sure appropriate controls are in place to make responsible use of AI (Responsible AI). Here are the top 8 challenges which need to be addressed to take full advantage of AI, RPA …
Contract Management Use Cases for Machine Learning
This post briefly represent the contract management use cases which could be solved using machine learning / data science. These use cases can also be termed as predictive analytics use cases. This can be useful for procurement business functions in any manufacturing companies which require to procure raw materials from different suppliers across different geographic locations. The following are some of the examples of industry where these use cases and related machine learning techniques can be useful. Pharmaceutical Airlines Food Transport Key Analytics Questions One must understand the business value which could be created using predictive analytics use cases listed later in this post. One must remember that one must start with questions …
Difference – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
In this post, you learn the difference between artificial intelligence & machine learning. Artificial intelligence represents a set of computer programs that imitate human intelligence. The diagram below represents the key difference between AI and Machine Learning. Basically, machine learning is a part of AI landscape. One can do AI without doing machine learning or deep learning. Thus, an organization can claim that they have AI-based systems without having machine learning or deep learning based systems. All machine learning or deep learning based systems can be termed as AI systems. But, all AI systems may not be termed as machine learning systems. The following are key building blocks of an …
Infographics for Model & Algorithm Selection & Evaluation
This is a short post created for quick reference on techniques which could be used for model evaluation & selection and model and algorithm comparision. This would be very helpful for those aspiring data scientists beginning to learn machine learning or those with advanced data science skills as well. The image has been taken from this blog, Comparing the performance of machine learning models and algorithms using statistical tests and nested cross-validation authored by Dr. Sebastian Raschka The above diagram provides prescription for what needs to be done in each of the following areas with small and large dataset. Very helpful, indeed. Model evaluation Model selection Model and algorithm comparison …
