This post tells the difference between cross-selling and up-selling. Cross-selling identifies products that satisfy additional complementary needs that are unfulfilled by the original item. It points users to products they would have purchased anyway by sharing them at the right time to ensure a sale. For example, Comb sale to a customer buying a...
Ethical, Privacy and Data Protection Issues
Data is often reduced to what can fit into a mathematical model. Yet, taken out of context, data may lose its meaning. Ethics, privacy, and data protection issues are often an afterthought or regulatory hurdle to be jumped through. Ethical Issues include: Non-objective analysis Incomplete Reporting Misleading Reporting Lack of Consideration Moral agency is...
Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Stages using Radiology Imaging and Longitudinal Clinical Data
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreparable, degenerative disease with ongoing loss of functions of the brain. Currently, there is no medicine or treatment present to stop or slow down the progression. The identification of different stages for diagnosis require a combination of clinical data, complex cognitive tests, radiology imaging, demographic information, time and highly skilled...
Highlight Text using Weights
Texts tend to have a hierarchical structure and the importance of words and sentences are highly context dependent. This post is a short tutorial to highlight text using sample weights. The text is displayed in Jupyter notebook. The weights can be from a model such as Logistic regression or Attention model. The different intensity...
Developing a Web Application for a Machine Learning Model
This post describes developing a web application for a machine learning model and deploying it so that it can be accessed by anyone. The web application is available at: https://arrear-model.herokuapp.com/ The process of deployment consists of transferring all flask application files from a local computer to the web server. Once completed the web application...
Economic Impact of the EU Membership on the UK
23rd June 2016, voters from United Kingdom (UK) voted in the Brexit referendum to leave European Union (EU) with a small majority vote of 51.9 %. The decision to leave EU since joining in 1973 has consequences that are both profound and catastrophic. The post analysis of the referendum found that the issues for Brexit can be...
Udacity Banana Navigation Project
Using a simplified version of the Unity Banana environment, the objective of the project ( Udacity Banana Navigation Project) is to design an agent to navigate and collect bananas in a large, square world. A reward of +1 is provided for collecting a yellow banana, and a reward of -1 is provided for collecting...
An Analysis of the Impact of EU Membership on the Economic Development of Ireland
Recent economic recession and Brexit has raised doubts about the EU membership among member nations. This paper analyzes the public data from World Bank to determine the impact to the economic development of Ireland since joining the EU on 1st January 1973. The paper shows that EU membership has a positive relationship with the...