5 YouTube Recommendations

It's been a while since my last blogpost here so I wanted to hop on here to share some updates. Lately I have been exploring video form of content creation because it allows me to connect better with you all. If you are following this blog, chances are that you will enjoy and benefit from...

Time Series Forecasting, the easy way! Let’s analyze Microsoft’s stocks

Introduction Time series forecasting and understanding time based patterns have many important applications. However, it is a territory often left unexplored, especially by ML practitioners, because of its relative complexity. To help people with domain knowledge, but without much expertise in creating statistical forecasting model, Facebook decided to come to rescue. And we will see...

Click-Through Rate (CTR) Prediction using Decision Trees

1. Introduction In this tutorial, we will try to predict click-through rate of ads with the Decision Tree algorithm we learnt in the last post. Before continuing, I would recommend you to first read that post for a theoretical understanding of Decision Trees. What does Click-Through Rate Prediction mean? Let's assume that you are designing...

Understanding Decision Trees

Tree based algorithms are among the most common and best supervised Machine Learning algorithms. Decision Trees follow a human-like decision making approach by breaking the decision problem into many smaller decisions.  As opposed to black-box models like SVM and Neural Networks, Decision Trees can be represented visually and are easy to interpret. How is decision...

A dataset and a ML problem, what should you do? An end-to-end example with housing dataset from Kaggle

In this post, we will deconstruct the basics of working with a dataset to solve ML problems. This first part of this post gives a quick overview of the general workflow needed to work with ML problems. The second part comprises of a practical end-to-end example in Python. Part 1 The process of working with...

Machine Learning Algorithms 101

This blog post is for the newbies who want to quickly understand the basics of the most popular Machine Learning algorithms. I am assuming that you have read the previous article regarding types or categories of algorithms. If not, I would suggest you to read that first. In this quick tour you will learn about:...