Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyWhat you see is what you’ll get: Twitter’s new strategy for displaying Images on the timelineSummarizing Twitter’s paper on their Image Cropping Algorithm — In 2020, there was a lot of furore on Twitter over the biased nature of their image cropping algorithm. The Twitterati complained that it was biased towards white-colored individuals and was objectifying women’s bodies. Twitter promised to look into this issue and several others to ensure responsible AI practices. This…Responsible Ai5 min readResponsible Ai5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyOvercoming ImageNet dataset biases with PASS.PASS: An ImageNet replacement for self-supervised pretraining without humans — ImageNet is one of the most widely used datasets in Computer Vision applications. However, studies have shown biases prevalent in this dataset based on the collection methodology and the types of images present. In this respect, a team of researchers at the Visual Geometry Group, the University of Oxford, have…Computer Vision5 min readComputer Vision5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyInterpretable or Accurate? Why Not Both?Building interpretable Boosting Models with IntepretML — As summed up by Miller, interpretability refers to the degree to which a human can understand the cause of a decision. A common notion in the machine learning community is that a trade-off exists between accuracy and interpretability. This means that the learning methods that are more accurate offer less…Machine Learning8 min readMachine Learning8 min read
PinnedMember-onlyAccessing Formula -1 Race's 🏎 historical data using PythonAnalyzing the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with the Fast F1 library — # First published on Oct 15, 2021. Edited on March 20, 2022 What’s behind you doesn’t matter — Enzo Ferrari The 73rd season of the Formula One World Championship or F1 commenced in Bahrain on 20th March 2022. Fierce battles are being witnessed between the ten teams for the ultimate…Formula 19 min readFormula 19 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyBuilding a compelling Data Science Portfolio with writingWriting in Data Science can have a transformative effect not only in your journey but also in your career. — I appeared on the FastBook Reading Sessions organised by Weights & Biases to discuss about the benefits of writing in Data Science. I wrote this piece to summarize what I covered there. This article was originally published on their forums but I’m sharing a somewhat edited version here as well…Data Science6 min readData Science6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Feb 6Member-onlyWriting a book on NLP is a bit like solving a complex data science projectAn interview with Lewis Tunstall, co-author of the book- Natural Language Processing with Transformers — A series of interviews highlighting the incredible work of writers in the space of data science and their path of writing. “In fiction, the language and the senses it evokes are important, whereas in technical writing, the content, and the information it conveys, are important.” ― Krista Van Laan, The Insider’s…Naturallanguageprocessing7 min readNaturallanguageprocessing7 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 21, 2022Member-onlyPublishing Is Powerful as It Serves as a Catalyst for Scope and Writing DecisionsAn interview with Christoph Molnar, author of the book- Interpretable Machine Learning — A series of interviews highlighting the incredible work of writers in the space of data science and their path of writing. “If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it” — Beverly Cleary In an endeavor to bring such notable work to the forefront, I started…Data Science5 min readData Science5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Dec 14, 2021Member-onlyVisualizing Decision Trees with PybaobabdtAn open-source package for decision tree visualization and model interpretation — Data visualization is the language of decision-making. Good charts effectively convey information. Great charts enable, inform, and improve decision making: Dante Vitagliano Decision trees can be visualized in multiple ways. Take, for instance, the indentation nodes where every internal and leaf node is depicted as text, while the parent-child relationship…Data Science7 min readData Science7 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 17, 2021Member-onlyYou do not become better by employing fancy techniques but by working on the fundamentalsAn interview with Radek Osmulski, author of the book- Meta Learning: How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World — A series of interviews highlighting the incredible work of writers in the space of data science and their path of writing. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” …Data Science8 min readData Science8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 10, 2021Member-onlyInteractive Geographical maps with GeoPandasExplore the geospatial data with interactive visualizations — If geography is prose, maps are iconography : Lennart Meri The word geospatial is composed of two distinct terms. Geo means Earth, and Spatial means relating to or occupying space. Together it refers to the time-based data pertaining to a specific location on the Earth’s surface. GeoPandas is a popular…Python8 min readPython8 min read
