Tag: Predicting

Predicting the Functionality of Water Pumps with XGBoost

An end-to-end machine learning project inspired by the Data Mining the Water Table Competition T This project is inspired by the Pump it Up: Data Mining the Water Table competition hosted by DrivenData. Tanzania currently suffers from a severe water crisis, with 28 percen...

Predicting Age & Gender using Data Science

In the field of computer vision, deep learning has found a lot of use. The domains that deal with facial data are some of the most important applications of computer vision. Face recognition and detection are common in security-related applications. Age and gender prediction are used extensively ...

Predicting Housing Prices Using Scikit-Learn’s Random Forest Model

Having a housing price prediction model can be a very important tool for both the seller and the buyer as it can aid them in making well informed decision. For sellers, it may help them to determine the average price at which they should put their house for sale while for buyers, it may help them fi...

The Next Wave: Predicting the future of coffee in New York City

The geography of economic activity is a critical force that shapes cities around the world. From infrastructure to housing, urban transformation is often influenced by the location of specific businesses. Coffee shops in New York City are no exception. Using data from dozens of dif...

Predicting Electricity Consumption Using Weather Data

According to the UN climate report in 2021, some of the global warming effects are now irreversible. The effects of this are detrimental, as the sea levels continue to rise, due to the melting of ice in the arctic, areas located below the sea level are at high risk. Furthermore, as the temperature i...

How Can Astrology Help in Predicting Marriage?

Marriage is an important event that brings a paradigm shift in the life journey of every person. Since happiness, success, and other important aspects of life ultimately depend on marriage and life partner, everyone looks at marriage with great expectations. According to Marriage prediction ...

Predicting gene expression with Machine Learning: an explanation in simple terms

Some of the ML papers in the genomics space can at first seem intimidating, since there is a vast amount of domain knowledge necessary to fully understand them. Here I briefly introduce some of the challenges in interpreting the genome before describing one of the most recent advances in Machine Lea...

ProSTAGE: Predicting Effects of Mutations on Protein Stability by Using Protein Embeddings and Graph Convolutional Networks. Article review

The thermodynamic stability of proteins has a major impact on their structure, function, expression, and solubility. Mutations can reduce the thermodynamic stability of proteins and lead to various diseases, such as genetic disorders, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. For the development of bi...

Predicting Our Way Out Of A Crisis

These developments can have disastrous unintended downstream consequences and can very easily lead to increasing stigma and under-treating pain. We cannot adequately predict future outcomes, even with genetic testing, and I don’t believe tools like this have significant validity. As noted on M...

GGplot Logistic Model with More than One Predicting Variables

Background Story: One day, my boss asked me to run a Logistic Regression model aval= dlevel+d2 and plot the result. After reviewing the output, she generated a modification part for a new data set that will reflect the d2 variable in the model and asked me to try again. Without...

Predicting Sneaker Resell With Deep Learning

The night before the release of any sneaker, resellers and enthusiasts rejoice in online forums or chat groups discussing the potential resell of the next day’s release, from Air Jordans, to Yeezys, to any big name collaborations, you can count on sneaker reselling to play a major part in the ...