Spotting Red Flags at Machine Learning Project Ideation

How many times have you finished building a model only to be told that it won’t be used? How many times have you planned a machine learning project that kinda...

NUFORC UFO sighting reports, Part II: Exploratory Data visualisations

National UFO Reporting Centre was founded in 1974 and have been active in collecting reports of UFO sightings through hotline and online forms to this day. NUFORC provides data of...

NUFORC UFO sighting reports, Part I: Geocoding for UFO sightings

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to...

Authorship Prediction in Sci-Fi Literature Part III: N-grams and Word embedding

Part 2 was a lot of exploration in feature engineering and evaluating our choices with the Bag of Words model trained on a simple neural network. Here in part 3,...

Authorship Prediction in Sci-Fi Literature Part II: Bag of Words in Neural Network

Part 1 ended with the dataset. Here, in Part 2, I’m going to cover a simple and intuitive machine learning strategy for classifying text known as the Bag of Words...