Understanding the Math Behind Gradient Boosting: 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 you’re trying to predict housing prices based on various factors, such as location, size, or the number of bedrooms. The challenge? …
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 you’re a teacher, and you’re 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 — you’ve …
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 you’re looking at a large dataset filled with customer purchases. Suddenly, you notice one purchase that’s 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, you’re 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 you’re sitting in a doctor’s 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 you’re working on a brand-new data project, …
A Beginner’s 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 you’re 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 you’re in a busy kitchen, trying to prepare a gourmet meal. You’ve 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 you’re baking a cake, but instead of sugar, flour, and eggs, you have words like “vanilla,” “chocolate,” and “strawberry” on your …
The Curse of Dimensionality: Why More Isn’t 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, you’re often knee-deep in datasets. These datasets could be anything — 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. Let’s 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 you’re on the hunt for a new apartment in …
Why scikit-learn isn’t the Best for Visualizing Decision Trees: Meet dtreeviz
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. Fall in Love with Decision Trees with dtreeviz’s 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 …
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