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Quan Sun on finishing in second place in Predict Grant Applications

Kaggle

In 2009 and 2010, I participated the UCSD/FICO data mining contests. After the first 10 testing submissions, I realised that there was a concept drift happening between 2007 and 2008. To me, this probably means, the decision rules for grant applications were somehow changed during 2007 and 2008. In total 352 features.

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Shocking Ways Big Data Changed the Nature of Business Lending

Smart Data Collective

They need to adapt their borrowing strategy to the new big data algorithms to improve their changes of securing a loan. Big Data Rewrites the Rules of Borrowing for Small Businesses. If the financial crash of 2008 achieved one thing, it helped to open up a wider and more diverse range of borrowing options to small businesses in the UK.

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Fake Reviews: Maybe You Should Be Worried About AI’s Writing (and Reading) Skills

Towards AI

Image by Mohamed Hassan on Pixabay Data Mining Truthful Reviews Refraining from cheating at the online marketplace game comes with some pretty powerful upsides. In a 2015 report, the CMA estimated that “£23 billion a year of UK consumer spending is potentially influenced by online reviews”.

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Federated Learning on AWS with FedML: Health analytics without sharing sensitive data – Part 1

AWS Machine Learning Blog

At the application level, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and data mining, data scientists and engineers only need to write the model, data, and trainer in the same way as a standalone program and then pass it to the FedMLRunner object to complete all the processes, as shown in the following code.

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Data scientist

Dataconomy

Data visualization: Creating dashboards and visual reports to clearly communicate findings to stakeholders. Job title history of data scientist The title “data scientist” gained prominence in 2008 when companies like Facebook and LinkedIn utilized it in corporate job descriptions.