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Rodolfo Bonnin
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Rodolfo Bonnin

Rodolfo Bonnin is a systems engineer and Ph.D. student at Universidad Tecnolgica Nacional, Argentina. He has also pursued parallel programming and image understanding postgraduate courses at Universitt Stuttgart, Germany. He has been doing research on high-performance computing since 2005 and began studying and implementing convolutional neural networks in 2008, writing a CPU- and GPU-supporting neural network feedforward stage. More recently he's been working in the field of fraud pattern detection with Neural Networks and is currently working on signal classification using machine learning techniques. He is also the author of Building Machine Learning Projects with Tensorflow and Machine Learning for Developers by Packt Publishing.
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Understanding the problem

When solving machine learning problems, it's important to take time to analyze both the data and the possible amount of work beforehand. This preliminary step is flexible and less formal than all the subsequent ones on this list.

From the definition of machine learning, we know that our final goal is to make the computer learn or generalize a certain behavior or model from a sample set of data. So, the first thing we should do is understand the new capabilities we want to learn.

In the enterprise field, this is the time to have more practical discussions and brainstorms. The main questions we could ask ourselves during this phase could be as follows:

  • What is the real problem we are trying to solve?
  • What is the current information pipeline?
  • How can I streamline data acquisition?
  • Is the incoming data complete, or does it have gaps?
  • What additional...
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Rodolfo Bonnin

Rodolfo Bonnin is a systems engineer and Ph.D. student at Universidad Tecnolgica Nacional, Argentina. He has also pursued parallel programming and image understanding postgraduate courses at Universitt Stuttgart, Germany. He has been doing research on high-performance computing since 2005 and began studying and implementing convolutional neural networks in 2008, writing a CPU- and GPU-supporting neural network feedforward stage. More recently he's been working in the field of fraud pattern detection with Neural Networks and is currently working on signal classification using machine learning techniques. He is also the author of Building Machine Learning Projects with Tensorflow and Machine Learning for Developers by Packt Publishing.
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