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Published inMar 2019
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Niloy Purkait
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Niloy Purkait

Niloy Purkait is a technology and strategy consultant by profession. He currently resides in the Netherlands, where he offers his consulting services to local and international companies alike. He specializes in integrated solutions involving artificial intelligence, and takes pride in navigating his clients through dynamic and disruptive business environments. He has a masters in Strategic Management from Tilburg University, and a full specialization in data science from Michigan University. He has advanced industry grade certifications from IBM, in subjects like signal processing, cloud computing, machine and deep learning. He is also perusing advanced academic degrees in several related fields, and is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner.
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In this chapter, we saw how we can perform a regression task with neural networks. This involved some simple architectural changes to our previous classification models, pertaining to model construction (one output layer with no activation function) and the choice of loss function (MSE). We also tracked the MAE as a metric, since squared errors are not very intuitive to visualize. Finally, we plotted out our model's predictions versus the actual prediction labels using a scatter plot to better visualize how well the network did. We also used a histogram to understand the distribution of prediction errors in our model.

Finally, we introduced the methodology of k-fold cross validation, which is preferred over explicit train test splits of our data, in cases where we deal with very few data observations. What we did instead of splitting our data into a training and test...

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Niloy Purkait

Niloy Purkait is a technology and strategy consultant by profession. He currently resides in the Netherlands, where he offers his consulting services to local and international companies alike. He specializes in integrated solutions involving artificial intelligence, and takes pride in navigating his clients through dynamic and disruptive business environments. He has a masters in Strategic Management from Tilburg University, and a full specialization in data science from Michigan University. He has advanced industry grade certifications from IBM, in subjects like signal processing, cloud computing, machine and deep learning. He is also perusing advanced academic degrees in several related fields, and is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner.
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