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Published inAug 2016
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Bastiaan Sjardin
Bastiaan Sjardin
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Bastiaan Sjardin

Bastiaan Sjardin is a data scientist and founder with a background in artificial intelligence and mathematics. He has a MSc degree in cognitive science obtained at the University of Leiden together with on campus courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the past 5 years, he has worked on a wide range of data science and artificial intelligence projects. He is a frequent community TA at Coursera in the social network analysis course from the University of Michigan and the practical machine learning course from Johns Hopkins University. His programming languages of choice are Python and R. Currently, he is the cofounder of Quandbee (http://www.quandbee.com/), a company providing machine learning and artificial intelligence applications at scale.
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Alberto Boschetti
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Alberto Boschetti

Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist with expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering and currently lives and works in London. In his work projects, he faces challenges ranging from natural language processing (NLP) and behavioral analysis to machine learning and distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay updated about the latest developments in data science technologies, attending meet-ups, conferences, and other events.
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In this chapter, we have come quite a long way covering the TensorFlow landscape and its corresponding methods. We got acquainted with how to set up basic regressors, classifiers, and single-hidden layer neural networks. Even though the programming TensorFlow operations are relatively straightforward, for off-the-shelf machine learning tasks, TensorFlow might be a little bit too tedious. This is exactly where SkFlow comes in, a higher-level library with an interface quite similar to Scikit-learn. For incremental or even out-of-core solutions, SkFlow provides a partial fit method, which can easily be set up. Other large scale solutions are either restricted to GPU applications or are at a premature stage. So for now, we have to settle for incremental learning strategies when it comes to scalable solutions.

We also provided an introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks and saw how they can be set up in Keras.

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Bastiaan Sjardin

Bastiaan Sjardin is a data scientist and founder with a background in artificial intelligence and mathematics. He has a MSc degree in cognitive science obtained at the University of Leiden together with on campus courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the past 5 years, he has worked on a wide range of data science and artificial intelligence projects. He is a frequent community TA at Coursera in the social network analysis course from the University of Michigan and the practical machine learning course from Johns Hopkins University. His programming languages of choice are Python and R. Currently, he is the cofounder of Quandbee (http://www.quandbee.com/), a company providing machine learning and artificial intelligence applications at scale.
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Alberto Boschetti

Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist with expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering and currently lives and works in London. In his work projects, he faces challenges ranging from natural language processing (NLP) and behavioral analysis to machine learning and distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay updated about the latest developments in data science technologies, attending meet-ups, conferences, and other events.
Read more about Alberto Boschetti