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Exciting New Project Announcement - Using AI to Improve Apprenticeship Achievement Rates
The Knowledge Ladder are proud to announce a new project to develop a machine learning algorithm to predict if apprentices are likely to...
Jun 21, 20212 min read
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What Skills Do You Need to Succeed in Data Science?
Over the years I have formed a view that data science has 4 cornerstones. Maths & statistics is certainly one of them. A good...
May 28, 20212 min read
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The Value of Data Analytics to Leaders and Managers
In the era of data science and data being “the new oil” what is the value of data analytics to today’s leaders and managers and how can...
May 19, 20211 min read
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Aligning Supply and Demand Using Data Analytics in Further Education
In this article Graham Harrison, the CIO of The Knowledge Ladder, explores how high end data analytics can be used to link supply and...
May 19, 20211 min read
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Stratified Random Sampling Using Python and Pandas
How to stratify sample data to match population data in order to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. Click here to...
May 19, 20211 min read
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Calculating and Setting Thresholds to Optimise Logistic Regression Performance
How to create a simple class to optimise thresholds for precision, recall, f1 score, accuracy, tpr - fpr or custom cost functions. Click...
May 19, 20211 min read
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How to Build an Interactive Confidence Interval Calculator in Python
Building a re-usable interactive and batch calculator for normal and binomial confidence intervals in Python and Jupyter Notebook. Click...
May 19, 20211 min read
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Decision Trees in Python
From first principles to deployment in a production environment including worked examples and easy-to-follow explanations. Click here to...
May 19, 20211 min read
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