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  • My experiments with an AI assistant or how not to search for shows in NYC

    Introduction The most recent lean in AI have started with ChatGPT in 2023, driven by its ability to generate human-like text and its quick adoption across industries for tasks like customer support, content creation, and programming assistance.It was the frontier of AI. In 2024, and I suppose in 2025 the...

  • Problem-Solving Principles Applied to Data Science

    Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, The Musée Rodin of Paris, France Introduction The field of Data Science is among the most diverse ones. It's relatively young and still in search for its shapes. It results that many problems require non-standard, out-of-the-box solutions.  Being a data scientist is like being...

  • Multi-Arm Bandits for Recommendation Systems

    Envision yourself as a store owner looking to boost foot traffic. You hatch a plan: stand at the front and actively promote your items to those walking by. With enthusiasm, you quickly wear a striking outfit and hold up a blank board, ready to publicize a special deal. However, when...

  • Do Telecom Customers Churn?

    HOW TO READ THIS NOTEBOOK: This notebook has several sections: Util functions that generate plots, train models and print out statistics Feel free to skip these ones unless you're interested in-deep on how results are generated NOTE: Some of the util functions I took from the open-source code (e.g. print...

  • Bike Sharing Demand Analysis

    Description: Kaggle playground competition In [ ]: import pandas as pd from pprint import pprint import numpy as np import random from tqdm import tqdm import gc import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, OneHotEncoder from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split #from scipy.sparse import vstack, csr_matrix, save_npz,...

  • Microsoft Malware Prediction

    Kaggle Competition Format: Playground Code used : https://www.kaggle.com/bogorodvo https://www.kaggle.com/artgor In [ ]: print(''' Kaggle Competiontin:\n\t https://www.kaggle.com/c/microsoft-malware-prediction\n

  • University Towns and Recession risk

    The time has come for me to start looking for new apartments in the US. The logical question has appeared: What is the best area to rent/buy an apartment? The simplest answer is "Go call your realtor and ask this question to him/her!." However, I decided to think a bit...

  • Is It the End of the Theory?

    If it’s possible to find the manifesto of “data science,” the article published in far 2008 can be it. The main idea of research is that the classical scientific approach presented in the scheme form: a hypothesis model – the experiment, faced serious problems today.  One of them – impossibility...

  • Bitcoin price with google trends

    A long ago I want to experiment and deal with a question of how Google trends can be implemented to analyze the financial markets. Here the opportunity has just turned up. The main idea consists in the following: As the price is functioning of supply and demand, increase in demand...