Data Science

Machine learning & data science for beginners and experts alike.

Best Practices

Feature Engineering 101: Introduction to Featuretools

Construct new features automatically to build better models, save time and avoid the mistakes that can occur in a manual process.

Developer

Python

How to Troubleshoot Memory Problems in Python

Memory problems are tough to diagnose and fix — maybe more so in Python. Read about how we identified and fixed a memory problem in EvalML, and pick up some best practices you can...

Best Practices

Normalization, Standardization, and Regularization in Altery...

Ever get a little confused by these three terms that sound so similar? Let's get some clarity on these important concepts.

Machine Learning

Using Text Data in EvalML with Woodwork

Learn how EvalML leverages Woodwork, Featuretools and the nlp-primitives library to process text data and create a machine learning model that can detect spam text messages.

Machine Learning

Exploring EvalML: Automatically Build, Optimize and Evaluate...

Go on a guided tour of how EvalML automatically builds, optimizes and evaluates supervised machine learning pipelines.

Machine Learning

Exploring Featuretools: Automated Feature Engineering for Ma...

Let's explore how Featuretools generates new features for use in machine learning — automatically, quickly and easily.

Python

Easy, Open-Source AutoML in Python with EvalML

Introducing EvalML — an open-source library for automated machine learning (AutoML) and model understanding, written in Python.

Machine Learning

Beyond Churn: An Introduction to Uplift Modeling

Knowing which customers might churn is helpful, but uplift modeling can give you a new window into the nuances of customers' responses, among other applications.

Machine Learning

Introducing Compose for Prediction Engineering

How to build better training examples in a fraction of the time.

Machine Learning

Tackling the Titanic Kaggle Competition with Assisted Modeli...

I'll give a shoutout in the subsequent Tackling Competitions Post to the person with the best score in the previous post as an added incentive!

Best Practices

Visualizing Automated Feature Engineering

To make it easier to understand how a feature was generated automatically, Featuretools now has the ability to graph the lineage of a feature.

Classification

Assisted Modeling: The Power of Augmented Intelligence

Never made an analytical model, or don't have enough time to dedicate to learning statistics, data science, and programming... but you know the business and have questions to answ...