# Standardize Continuous Data Shape for Neural Networks

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So this is an interesting problem.  You are collecting data from somewhere and you want to feed it into a neural network for classification.  There is one main problem with this.  The shape of the data!  Neural networks and really just anything require specifically shaped data, you can’t just like give it something of ambiguous size.  There are tons of papers out there on dimensionality reduction, but nothing on dimensionality reduction to a specified size.  This article explains my approach.

# Becoming a Functional Data Scientist

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So today, I was asked to put some thought into what we should focus our entry level data scientists on in terms of tech skills.  After I put a bunch of thought into it, I ended up coming up with this.  I decided that the most important aspect of this was a few items fold

2. Can deliver to production where the target can be anything, including IoT.
3. They will not be concerned with building front ends.

I have to say, the result greatly surprised me.

# Microsoft Tech and Robotics

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This article is a high level discussion on where you might use various Microsoft Technologies in the field of robotics.  I will begin with a side pet project I’m kicking off to get more familiar with some cool tools and tech I’ve lately discovered so I can hopefully get assigned to some really cool projects at work, including drones.

# K-Means under the hood with Python

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What is K-Means?

K-Means Clustering is an unsupervised learning algorithm that tells you how similar observations are by putting them into groups or “clusters”.  K-Means is often used as a discovery step on new data to discover what various categories might be and then apply something such as a k-nearest-neighbor as a classifier to it after understanding the centroid labels.  Where a centroid is the center of a “cluster” or group.

# SQL Saturday 524 Slides – Analytical Computing – Device to Cloud and Back

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Here you can find the slide deck for my talk for SQL Saturday #524 in South Florida.  I hope you find this useful, but it should be far more useful if you attend in person.  This talk lays the foundation for building and understanding analytical computing for cloud and devices as well as how they work together.

https://drcdata.blob.core.windows.net/slidedecks/Analytics_Device_To_Cloud_And_Back.pptx

# Machine Learning Study Group Recap – Week 4

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So here we go with another recap. This week we did a deep dive into binary classification using Logistic Regression. Logistic regression and binary classification is the underpinnings for modern neural networks so a deep and complete understanding of this is necessary to be proficient in machine learning.

# Sigmoid for Classifiers Decoded

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Sigmoid really isn’t that complicated (once your understand it of course).  Some back knowledge in case you are coming at this totally fresh is that the Sigmoid function is used in machine learning primarily as a hypothesis function for classifiers.  What is interesting is that this same function is used for binary classifiers, multi-class classifiers and is the backbone of modern neural networks.

Here is the sigmoid function:    $\frac{ 1 }{ 1 + e^{-z}}$

# Categories of Analytics

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This is a high level article geared for general consumption of the normal individual! I’ve been thinking about types of customer engagements I have been doing lately and decided to break it down into a series of categorical engagements. There are 4 categories of engagements: Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive and Actuated Analytics engagements.

# Getting Started with Linear Algebra in Python

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So here I am after trying for a long time to not learn Python learning Python.  It just seems like I might get a hit or two more on my blog with some Python content.  Well whats the first thing I need to figure out aside from getting it up and running in my environment and installing some libraries… Thats right, find a numerical computing library and see how it ticks.

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In this article we are going to cover a simple version of Gradient Descent. It is important to note that this version of gradient descent is using Sum of Squares as its cost function to reduce. This implementation utilizes vectorized algorithms. Lets start off with…