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MLW Preview Video: Dean Abbott, President at Abbott Analytics
 In anticipation of his upcoming pre-conference workshop and presentations...
MLW Preview Video: Evan Wimpey, Director of Strategic Analytics at Elder Research
 In anticipation of his upcoming presentation at Predictive Analytics...
Wise Practitioner – Machine Learning Week Interview: Mack Wallace, Head of Financial Products at MPOWER Financing
 In anticipation of his upcoming presentation at Predictive Analytics...
Wise Practitioner – Machine Learning Week Interview: Alejandro Jesús Castañeira Rodriguez, Principal Data Scientist at JANZZ Ltd.
 In anticipation of his upcoming presentation at Predictive Analytics...

Machine Learning Models

Models Are Rarely Deployed – an Industrywide Failure in ML Leadership (Poll Results)

  Originally published in KDnuggets. The latest KDnuggets poll reconfirms today’s dire industry buzz: Very few machine learning models actually get deployed. In this article, I’ll summarize the poll results and argue that this pervasive failure of ML projects comes from a lack of prudent leadership. I’ll also argue that MLops is not the fundamental

Machine Learning Models are Missing Contracts

 Why pretrained machine learning models are often unusable and irreproducible — and what we can do about it. Introduction A useful approach to designing software is through contracts. For every function in your codebase, you start by writing...

Guilty or Not Guilty: Weight of Evidence

 You have been invited to serve as a juror in a criminal related case. After hearing testimony, the presiding judge offers a summary of the proceeding. “Evaluate the evidence,” he declares. Whether it was an eyewitness account,...

Overcoming the Explainability Challenges of Machine Learning Models

 Some History Machine Learning Models, which have historically been referred to as predictive models, are not new. Any early practitioner in this field would emphasize that the two key deliverables of any model are as follows: its...