Gradient Boosting Explained: Turning Mistakes Into Precision
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre a teacher, and youβre trying to predict the future salaries of your students based on two factors: their IQ and …
Regularization in Machine Learning: Mastering Ridge, Lasso, and Elastic Net
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. The story of regularization starts with a simple yet crucial problem that haunts many machine learning models: overfitting. Picture this β youβve …
Outlier Detection for Data Science: Practical Techniques and Tools Explained
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre looking at a large dataset filled with customer purchases. Suddenly, you notice one purchase thatβs 10 times the average value! …
The Balancing Act of Machine Learning: Bias-Variance Tradeoff
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Once upon a time, in the world of machine learning, data scientists faced a constant challenge: finding the balance between a model …
Building & Deploying a FastAPI Video Description App: From Code to Cloud with GPT, Docker and Azure
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Ever wanted to turn a video into a text description without manually watching and writing down the details? Well, youβre in luck! …
Building a Conversational Medical Form with GPT-4, Langchain, and SQLite
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre sitting in a doctorβs office. Instead of filling out a cold, static medical form filled with dozens of boxes to …
Handling Mixed Variables in Feature Engineering: A Practical Guide with Code
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. A girl looking at a screen containing mixed variables. Source: Image generated by Dall-E Imagine youβre working on a brand-new data project, …
A Beginnerβs Guide to Converting Numerical Data to Categorical: Binning and Binarization
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine sifting through rows of data in a spreadsheet packed with numbers that look impressive at first glance. But when you try …
Mathematical Transformations in Feature Engineering: Log, Reciprocal, and Power Transforms Explained with Visualization
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre preparing to bake a cake, but some ingredients are piled high, and others barely fill the spoon. Without smoothing out …
Simplifying Data Preprocessing with ColumnTransformer in Python: A Step-by-Step Guide
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre in a busy kitchen, trying to prepare a gourmet meal. Youβve got various ingredients laid out, each needing a different …
Encoding Categorical Data: A Step-by-Step Guide
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine youβre baking a cake, but instead of sugar, flour, and eggs, you have words like βvanilla,β βchocolate,β and βstrawberryβ on your …
The Curse of Dimensionality: Why More Isnβt Always Better in Machine Learning
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. In the world of machine learning, youβre often knee-deep in datasets. These datasets could be anything β a collection of housing prices, …
Building Your First Machine Learning Model with Linear Regression Using Ordinary Least Square
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Letβs deep dive into the math and code it up from scratch This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Suppose youβre on the hunt for a new apartment in …
Why scikit-learn isnβt the Best for Visualizing Decision Trees: Meet dtreeviz
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Fall in Love with Decision Trees with dtreevizβs Visualization This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Decision Trees, also known as CART (Classification and Regression Trees), are undoubtedly one …