Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning — I opened my laptop and started to read the news when I came across this story on credit card fraud detection. If you search the internet for fresh news, I’m sure you’ll run across something like this sooner or later. Although only a small percentage of the millions of transactions…

Learning based on observation and regularities — I’m sure you have heard the term “You are the average of five people you associate with” before. Nearest Neighbour technique in data science uses a similar concept. It helps to assign a value to a new data point by assessing the classes/values of its nearest neighbours. These neighbouring data…

Not a Coder? No issue, you can still automate — Excel should have been the stepping stone into the analytical realm for the vast majority of individuals. Most of the industry desk professionals utilize Excel for their day-to-day analytics as well. It’s a terrific tool for extracting insights from data and producing reports for managers without requiring a lot of…

Simple Overview of Techniques Behind Famous Clustering Algorithms — “Birds of a feather flocks together” This is a well-known proverb that we’ve all heard since we were young. This suggests that individuals of the same type or with similar traits tend to be closer to each other. In data science, this natural phenomenon is referred to as clustering, and…

Overview of Different Outlier Types through an Example — Have you ever wondered why a basic analysis, such as a comparison of monthly average sales, yields a completely different outcome than what is achieved through very depth study? Have you ever wondered how military surveillance detects unusual behavior so quickly, or how your credit card sends you a notification…

Unravelling The Complexity of Neural Network For Beginners — You just moved your eye from left to right, how did you know you had to do it. You didn’t say it out loud to your eye, but its thanks to the neurons in your brain which sends the information to your eye via electrical impulses and chemical signals. …

How the spread of infectious disease can be observed through a mathematical lens — Happiness, sadness, being in good health, falling in sick is all parts of the cycle of life. Most of us have been victims of a viral infection, whether it was a basic flu or cold, at least once in our lives. It’s an absolute wonder how a teeny tiny particle…

Compartmental Models It’s always an uncertainity. We’re always at the infectious disease roulette table (By Dr.William Schaffner) With the present Covid 19 pandemic, we can see how accurate the above quote by Dr.Schaffner is. It is uncertain when we might be in the midst of a pandemic. Infectious diseases have…