Favorite This post is co-authored by Jiahang Zhong, Head of Data Science at Zopa. Zopa is a UK-based digital bank and peer to peer (P2P) lender. In 2005, Zopa launched the first ever P2P lending company to give people access to simpler, better-value loans and investments. In 2020, Zopa received
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 19, 2021
Favorite Each year, organizations lose tens of billions of dollars to online fraud globally. Organizations such as ecommerce companies and credit card companies use machine learning (ML) to detect online fraud. Some of the most common types of online fraud include email account compromise (personal or business), new account fraud,
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 19, 2021
Favorite Sometimes your organisation needs to acquire new knowledge, new know-how or new capability. Here are 7 ways to approach this. Knowledge Acquisition is a core component of Knowledge Management. ISO 30401:2018 recognises this, and requires compliant organisations to include Knowledge Acquisition as part of the Knowledge lifecycle (Acquisition, Utilisation,
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Shared by Nick Milton February 19, 2021
Favorite As businesses around the world are embarking on building innovative solutions, we’re seeing a growing trend adopting data science workloads across various industries. Recently, we’ve seen a greater push towards reducing the friction between data engineers and data scientists. Data scientists are now enabled to run their experiments on
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 18, 2021
Favorite Given the rising demand for fast and effective COVID-19 detection, customers are exploring the usage of respiratory sound data, like coughing, breathing, and counting, to automatically diagnose COVID-19 based on machine learning (ML) models. University of Cambridge researchers built a COVID-19 sound application and demonstrated that a simple binary
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 18, 2021
Favorite Dr. Marian Croak has spent decades working on groundbreaking technology, with over 200 patents in areas such as Voice over IP, which laid the foundation for the calls we all use to get things done and stay in touch during the pandemic. For the past six years she’s been
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Shared by Google AI Technology February 18, 2021
Favorite In this post, we discuss solving numerical optimization problems using the very flexible Amazon SageMaker Processing API. Optimization is the process of finding the minimum (or maximum) of a function that depends on some inputs, called design variables. This pattern is relevant to solving business-critical problems such as scheduling,
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 17, 2021
Favorite JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a schema-less, lightweight format for storing and transporting data. It’s a text-based, self-describing representation of structured data that is based on key-value pairs. JSON is supported either natively or through libraries in most major programming languages, and is commonly used to exchange information between
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 16, 2021
Favorite Training an accurate machine learning (ML) model requires many different steps, but none are potentially more important than data processing. Examples of processing steps include converting data to the input format expected by the ML algorithm, rescaling and normalizing, cleaning and tokenizing text, and many more. However, data processing
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 16, 2021
Favorite For many students, embarking on a higher education journey is an exciting time filled with new experiences. However, like anything new, it also can also bring plenty of questions to answer and obstacles to overcome. Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City (OSU-OKC) recognized this, and was intent on providing a
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 16, 2021