Mon.Feb 18, 2019

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What my first Silver Medal taught me about Text Classification and Kaggle in general?

MLWhiz

Kaggle is an excellent place for learning. And I learned a lot of things from the recently concluded competition on Quora Insincere questions classification in which I got a rank of 182/4037. In this post, I will try to provide a summary of the things I tried. I will also try to summarize the ideas which I missed but were a part of other winning solutions.

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Running Simulations with the New DataRobot What-If Extension for Tableau

DataRobot

In order t o further help you accelerate AI success with the team and tools you have in place, we are pleased to share our new DataRobot What-If extension for Tableau. The DataRobot What-If extension empowers you to analyze the cause-and-effect of different variables on a predicted outcome within a familiar Tableau experience. With the DataRobot What-If extension, you can make better informed, more actionable decisions to optimize outcomes.

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Error converting data type varchar to numeric where ISNUMERIC finds only numbers

Jen Stirrup

I am writing some SQL to form the basis of views to pull data from a Microsoft SQL Server source into Azure SQL Database, and then the data would go to Power BI. The data was all presented in string format initially (not my data, not my monkeys, not my circus), and I wanted to correct the data types before the data got into Power BI. I noted that one of the columns failed to convert VARCHAR to DECIMAL.

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