Announcing the four students accepted for Google Summer of Code 2024 to work on scikit-learn projects, including neural networks and performance improvements.
A technical guide to implementing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, comparing it with MDA and providing code examples.
An author critiques the overuse of PCA in data science, arguing it's not a universal solution for classification problems.
Introduces Stochastic Outlier Selection (SOS), an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for detecting outliers based on affinity between data points.
Explains the mathematical relationship between the tanh and logistic sigmoid functions, and why tanh is preferred in neural networks.
Overview of scikit-learn 0.14 release, highlighting new features like AdaBoost and performance improvements in benchmarks.
Explores using Principal Component Analysis on t-shirt images to build a gender classification model, visualizing data as 'eigenshirts'.
A data scientist analyzes gender stereotypes in children's clothing by building a model to classify t-shirts using image processing and color data.
Argues that true data science and innovation require deep mathematical understanding, not just push-button tools, and defends the value of skilled data scientists.
Overview of new features in scikit-learn 0.11, including non-linear models, semi-supervised learning, and sparse models for Python machine learning.
Announcement for a 2-year junior engineer position to work on the scikit-learn machine learning library at INRIA near Paris.
EuroScipy conference in Paris announces program details, keynote speakers, and a new poster session. Submission deadline is May 8th.
The scikit-learn team announces a community sprint on April 1st for improving the Python machine learning library, with in-person and remote participation.
A research group seeks a post-doc for the AzureBrain project, using Python for parallel computing and statistics on brain imaging/genetics data.
Explains the difference between ICA and PCA using scikit-learn code, advocating for runnable examples over static visuals in scientific materials.
A humorous take on machine learning concepts like overfitting and algorithm comparisons, using Python's scikit-learn library as an example.
Announcement for the upcoming scikit-learn coding sprint in Paris, including dates, location, remote participation details, and planned tasks.
Announcing a two-day coding sprint in Paris focused on scikit-learn's API and development guidelines for machine learning in Python.
