Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the Winnow classification technique. Winnow classification is used for a very specific scenario where the target variable to predict is binary and all the predictor variables are also binary.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/15/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full demo of k-nearest neighbors classification on mixed numeric and categorical data. Compared to other classification techniques, k-NN is easy to implement, supports numeric and categorical predictor variables, and is highly interpretable.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/01/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using logistic regression, where the prediction model is trained using batch stochastic gradient descent with weight decay.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/16/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a C# program that illustrates using the AdaBoost algorithm to perform binary classification for spam detection. Compared to other classification algorithms, AdaBoost is powerful and works well with small datasets, but is sometimes susceptible to model overfitting.
- By James McCaffrey
- 09/03/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/15/2024
Microsoft's C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code has been updated to more easily wrangle NuGet packages, run/debug .NET Aspire applications, see the active document in Solution Explorer and acquire the .NET SDK within the editor.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research tackles the process of examining a set of source data to find data items that are different in some way from the majority of the source items.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/15/2024
Chances are if you've had many coding interviews you've been presented with a poker problem. Here's a great take from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/04/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step example of machine learning technique to visualize high-dimensional data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/15/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/01/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a classical ML technique that transforms a dataset into one with fewer columns, useful for creating a graph of data that has more than two columns, for example.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/16/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and performance.
- By James McCaffrey
- 02/01/2024
Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/17/2024
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research guides you through a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on "one of the most important operations in machine learning."
- By James McCaffrey
- 01/03/2024
Microsoft's C# programming language led the race to be named "programming language of the year" for 2022 by the TIOBE Index before being overtaken at the very end, but it's expected to attain the throne this year.
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research will teach how to do just that at an upcoming Visual Studio Live! developer conference.
Uno Platform 5.0 shipped this week with the ability to create entire cross-platform applications -- including markup -- from a single codebase written in one language, C#.
Compared to other regression techniques, a well-tuned neural network regression system can produce the most accurate prediction model, says Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in presenting this full-code, step-by-step tutorial.
- By James McCaffrey
- 10/18/2023
"If the trends remain this way, C# will surpass Java in about 2 month's time."
Microsoft announced the general availability of its C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that adds functionality missing in an existing C# tool -- functionality that comes with for-pay licensing for organizations.