Alvira Swalin
Alvira Swalin

Alvira Swalin

Data Scientist @Uber, MSDS @USF, IIT Bombay Alumnus, www.linkedin.com/in/alvira-swalin

Editor of USF-Data Science
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FEATURED STORY

How to Make Your Machine Learning Models Robust to Outliers

“So unexpected was the hole that for several years computers analyzing ozone data had systematically thrown out the readings that should…

May 31, 2018 · 10 min read
May 31, 2018 · 10 min read

Deep dive into Catboost functionalities for model interpretation

Do we really understand what happens inside ML models we build? Let’s explore.

Jun 24, 2019 · 8 min read

Building a Question-Answering System from Scratch— Part 1

First part of the series focusses on Facebook Sentence Embedding

May 23, 2018 · 9 min read

Choosing the Right Metric for Evaluating Machine Learning Models — Part 2

Second part of the series focussing on classification metrics

May 2, 2018 · 8 min read

Choosing the Right Metric for Evaluating Machine Learning Models — Part 1

First part of the series focussing on Regression Metrics

Apr 7, 2018 · 9 min read

CatBoost vs. Light GBM vs. XGBoost

Who is going to win this war of predictions and on what cost? Let’s explore.

Mar 13, 2018 · 8 min read

How to get more likes on your blogs (1/2)

Unravelling the mystery of claps on medium blogs using data analytics

Feb 12, 2018 · 5 min read

How to Handle Missing Data

“The idea of imputation is both seductive and dangerous” (R.J.A Little & D.B. Rubin)

Jan 31, 2018 · 8 min read