Business Developers Tutorials Creating Personalized Content Filters with CrowdLabel April 26, 2017 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev We are all inundated with information. Even in a Google-powered world, where itās relatively easy to find any type of content that we may seek, it can sometimes still take significant effort to pore through the search results and find the specific pieces we are interested in. For instance, say youāre interested in wearable tech. […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Image Data Use Case Tutorials Auto-tagging Interior Design Styles March 9, 2017 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Sorting content into categories is a key task for recommendation systems, as well as for general data management. Weāve talked a lot about text data lately — for example, using topic tags to improve article suggestions for your readership, and how you can build a custom text classifier for your specific industry or task. We […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Tutorials Building a Bot to Answer FAQs: Predicting Text Similarity February 15, 2017 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev In our previous tutorial on customer support bots, we trained a bot using the Custom Collection API to direct customers to the team member who is best suited to assist them with their problem or query. The bot improved our teamās response times as we no longer had to rely on a human facilitator (who […] Read more Ā»
Data Science Developers Machine Learning Tutorials Python Deep Learning Frameworks Reviewed January 31, 2017 by adamdev I recently stumbled across an old Data Science Stack Exchange answer of mine on the topic of the “Best Python library for neural networks”, and it struck me how much the Python deep learning ecosystem has evolved over the course of the past 2.5 years. The library I recommended in July 2014, pylearn2, is no […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Tutorials Tutorial: Analyze Excel Files with indico January 17, 2017 by adamdev The goal of this tutorial is to help you analyze your own Excel data using indicoās machine learning APIs — even if you have little programming experience! At the end of this tutorial you will be able to take the data from your .xlsx (Excel) files, analyze them using any of our text APIs, and […] Read more Ā»
Business Developers Tutorials Building a Bot for Better Customer Support November 28, 2016 by adamdev In a startup, we wear many hats. Operations does a little bit of sales, marketing does a little bit of quality assurance, engineering contributes to the blog…and everyone takes pride in helping out with customer service. For many months, we had one person managing questions we received through our little Intercom chat window (you know, […] Read more Ā»
Data Science Developers Tutorials Data Science Deployments with Docker November 15, 2016 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Deploying machine learning models has always been a struggle. Most of the software industry has adopted the use of container engines like Docker for deploying code to production, but since accessing hardware resources like GPUs from Docker was difficult and required hacky, driver specific workarounds, the machine learning community has shied away from this option. […] Read more Ā»
Machine Learning Tutorials The Simple + Practical Path to Machine Learning Capability: Models with Learned Parameters September 20, 2016 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev In part one, we showed how the machine learning process is like the scientific thinking process, and in part two, we introduced a benchmark task and showed how to get your machine learning system up and running with a simple nearest neighbors model. Now you have all the necessary parts of a machine learning system: […] Read more Ā»
Machine Learning Tutorials The Simple + Practical Path to Machine Learning Capability: A Common Benchmark Task September 7, 2016 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Here we introduce optical character recognition as a common benchmark task in modern machine learning, and show how to implement a simple model. Being able to experiment with machine learning models is the first step towards capability! Scientific learning process –> machine learning process In the previous post, we introduced machine learning as a principled […] Read more Ā»
Developers Machine Learning Tutorials The Simple + Practical Path to Machine Learning Capability: Motivating Background, Fundamental Concepts & Workflow August 24, 2016 / October 9, 2025 by adamdev Hello, friendly human! Welcome to the first in a series of articles about using machine learning to solve problems. We start with fundamental concepts, and later explain how to implement those concepts using Python + TensorFlow code. Then we’ll show how to combine and extend these fundamental concepts to solve more interesting problems. An unproductive […] Read more Ā»
