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Here I blog on all topics related to Big Data and Data Science. Articles could be of types: Executive Summaries, Tools analysis, Tool Comparisons, Architectural Patterns, Introductions to complex topics, and 'How to' or Tutorial types that share code snippets.

Sai Geetha M N

Sep 4, 20224 min read

Decision Trees - Homogeneity Measures

Having had an introduction to what is homogeneity and what are the 3 basic types of measures that can be used in the previous article on...

Sai Geetha M N

Aug 16, 20223 min read

Decision Trees - How to decide the split?

In the introduction to Decision trees, we have seen that the whole process is to keep splitting one node into two based on certain...

Sai Geetha M N

Sep 16, 20216 min read

Introduction to Clustering Algorithms

As mentioned in one of my introductory articles on "Machine Learning Algorithms Categories", Clustering Algorithms are a set of...

Sai Geetha M N

Jul 19, 20217 min read

Feature Selection in Machine Learning

Selecting the right features that contribute to your model is an art and a science. I call it art because much pain can be saved if you...

Sai Geetha M N

Jun 25, 20216 min read

Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Engineers And More - Demystified

As the world of Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is taking off, there is an overlap of roles and responsibilities...

Sai Geetha M N

May 27, 20215 min read

MultiCollinearity

Multicollinearity is a concept relevant to all the input data that is used in a Machine learning Algorithm. This has to be understood...

Sai Geetha M N

May 13, 20215 min read

Feature Scaling and its Importance

Feature Scaling is a very important aspect of data preparation for many Machine Learning Algorithms. Let us understand what is feature...

Sai Geetha M N

Apr 28, 20212 min read

Types of Variables - Definition

#Definition There are different characteristics of data that are used for analysis and machine learning. One very fundamental...

Sai Geetha M N

Apr 17, 20211 min read

ACID Vs BASE - A definition

#Definitions ACID is a characteristic of RDBMS databases Atomic: Each task in a transaction succeeds or the entire transaction is rolled...