In the paper A survey on bias and fairness in machine learning.- the authors outline 23 types of bias in data for machinelearning. The source is good – so below is an actual representation because I found it useful as it is

full paper link below

 

1) Historical Bias. Historical bias is the already…

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Summary:  Bias in modeling has long been a public concern that is now amplified and focused on the disparate treatment models may cause for African Americans.  Defining and correcting the bias presents difficult issues for data scientists that need to be carefully thought through before reaching conclusions.

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Profit analysis is an integral part of analysis drills, which are conducted at regular frequency. Both finance and marketing departments are equally engaged in this activity — though both have a different approach to it. Variance…

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Yahoo Finance (below) is a website that gives us a good deal of information about the financial market, including information about stock trading.

To get the numbers for a specific stock, all you have to do is to search for its Yahoo code (ex: VALE - see figure below). This is not necessarily the company’s…

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The Problem

Millions of people are forced to leave their current area of residence or community due to resource shortage and natural disasters such as droughts, floods. Our project partner, UNHCR, provides assistance and protection for those who are forcibly displaced inside Somalia.

The goal of this project was to create a solution that quantifies…

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) software is software for producing forgeries and imitations of data (aka synthetic data, fake data). Human beings have been making fakes, with good or evil intent, of almost everything they possibly can, since the beginning of the human race. Thus, perhaps not too surprisingly, GAN software has been widely used since it was first proposed in this amazingly recent 2014 paper. To gauge how widely GAN software has been used so far, see, for…

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In Sweden, there's something called the Allemansrätten, which literally translates…

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Given the scale of its impact and the kind of alteration that it brought into our lives, COVID19 is one of the most unprecedented crises of our times. Although it is not the only pandemic that humanity has been through, COVID19 is occurring in the time of the fourth industrial revolution where everyone and everything is one click way, and where the excess of data and computing has allowed machines to be more intelligent than ever. In the age of deep tech and data, data science is definitely…

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Background

As part of my PhD work, I recently had to analyze any dataset(s) of my interest and present findings.  I ended up conducting a study on US County-wise Covid-19 data.  I wanted to share my key findings through this blog.

Study Question

The primary question I wanted to address through data analysis was “Do counties’ socioeconomic factors such as population size, poverty rate, unemployment rate, education percent and…

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Data Science and Data Analytics are two most common terminologies in today’s data driven world. How a business uses big data to make key business decisions is critical to the future success of the firm. Data is collected into raw form and processed according to the requirement of a company and then this data is utilized for the decision making purpose. This process helps the businesses to grow & expand their operations in the market. Data or information is typically in raw format. The… Continue

Data monetization is a hot topic these days.  Executives at both startups and large companies are being asked to capitalize on the value of their data assets and drive bottom line results.  According to McKinsey, in their paper "Fueling growth through Data Monetization", companies that invest in data monetization are outperformers in their category -- which is not surprising, given that application of data is highly…

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“The world is witnessing the rise of augmented reality application. Let's know more about the tools that are required for its development. Keep reading to know more.”

 

Technology has always fascinated humankind and inspired their growth. We have come a long way by walking hand in hand with the rising tech. Some technologies have provided us with a highly secured platform, while some have transformed our professional lives. But, today we are going to…

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I like this image from the twitter feed of the Paris based Venture Capitalist Michael Jackson

It shows that everyone wants to be an ‘AI start-up’ - but only when it suits them! 

So, how exactly do you build (and identify) an AI start-up

I always like to start off with a set of ground…

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Do you want to deploy tracking codes to a website quickly? With Google tag manager (GTM), it can be possible without any modifications in coding. Tags work like a tracking source on the website, and Google tag manager allows you to manage tags easily. It completely changes the way of deploying tracking codes without getting any help from developers. For the e-marketers, it works like a big…

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What is a Cheat Sheet ?

Wikipedia defines cheat sheets as a concise set of notes used for quick reference.  Now the word that needs to be emphasized here is ‘quick reference’.

In…

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by Chris McLean & Peter Bruce

Never before have statistical models received the attention they are getting now in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.  It is hard to read a news feed today without encountering either:

• New predictions…

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