Introduction to Hugging Face’s Transformers v4.3.0 and its First Automatic Speech Recognition Model – Wav2Vec2

Overview Hugging Face has released Transformers v4.3.0 and it introduces the first Automatic Speech Recognition model to the library: Wav2Vec2 Using one hour of labeled data, Wav2Vec2 outperforms the previous state of the art on the 100-hour subset while using 100 times less labeled data Using just ten minutes of labeled data and pre-training on 53k hours of unlabeled data Wav2Vec2 achieves 4.8/8.2 WER Understand Wav2Vec2 implementation using transformers library on audio to text generation   Introduction Transformers has been […]

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Step by step guide to building sentiment analysis model using graphlab

I have been using graph lab for quite some time now. The first Kaggle competition I used it for was Click Trough Rate (CTR) and I was amazed to see the speed at which it can crunch such big data. Over last few months, I have realised much broader applications of GraphLab. In this article I will take up the text mining capability of GraphLab and solve one of the Kaggle problems. I will be referring to this problem with […]

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Innoplexus Sentiment Analysis Hackathon: Top 3 Out-of-the-Box Winning Approaches

Overview Hackathons are a wonderful opportunity to gauge your data science knowledge and compete to win lucrative prizes and job opportunities Here are the top 3 approaches from the Innoplexus Sentiment Analysis Hackathon – a superb NLP challenge   Introduction I’m a big fan of hackathons. I’ve learned so much about data science from participating in these hackathons in the past few years. I’ll admit it – I have gained a lot of knowledge through this medium and this, in […]

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The Ultimate Learning Path to Become a Data Scientist and Master Machine Learning in 2019

The Learning Path to Become a Data Scientist in 2020 is now live! Head over here to start your data science journey. Introduction Learning paths are immensely popular among our readers and with good reason! Learning paths take away the pain and confusion from the learning process. For those who don’t know what a learning path is – we take the pain of going through all the resources available on data science, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, select the best […]

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The 15 Most Popular Data Science and Machine Learning Articles on Analytics Vidhya in 2018

Introduction What is the one thing you enjoy most about Analytics Vidhya? The most popular answer we receive (and have received since Kunal transformed his idea into reality) is the content we publish. Our content is the one thing take pride in, and 2018 saw us take our high-quality content to a whole new level. We launched multiple top-quality and popular training courses, published knowledge-rich machine learning and deep learning articles and guides, and saw our blog visits cross 2.5 million […]

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The Winning Approaches from codeFest 2018 – NLP, Computer Vision and Machine Learning!

Introduction Analytics Vidhya’s hackathons are one of the best ways to evaluate how far you’ve traveled in your data science journey. And what better way than to put your skills to the test against the top data scientists from around the globe? Participating in these hackathons also helps you understand where you need to improve and what else you can learn to get a better score in the next competition. And a very popular demand after each hackathon is to […]

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7 Amazing NLP Hack Sessions to Watch out for at DataHack Summit 2019

Picture a world where: Machines are able to have human-level conversations with us Computers understand the context of the conversation without having to be told what the subject is These machines can even write full-blown essays after being given the theme of the topic This isn’t a movie script or a futuristic scenario – this is all happening right now thanks to the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP)! Here’s the incredible rise charted by Google Trends in the last […]

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Presenting HackLive – A Guided Community Hackathon by Analytics Vidhya’s Data Science Experts!

“There is no alternative to learning through experience.” This quote rings true for every aspect of our life. And it takes on a whole new meaning in data science. Data Science hackathons area great way to: Test your data science knowledge Compete against top data science experts from around the world and gauge where you stand Get hands-on practice of a data science problem working in a deadline environment Improve your existing data science skillset Enhance your existing data science […]

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How I Became a Data Science Competition Master from Scratch

Overview Winning data science competitions can be a complex process – but you can crack the top 3 if you have a framework to follow Hear from a top data science hackathon expert and how he went from scratch to winning data science competitions   Introduction There is no alternative to learning through experience. Especially in the data science industry! I recently won the top prize in Zindi’s Zimnat Insurance Recommendation challenge – an achievement that ranks top among my […]

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Big Announcement: 3 Free Certificate Courses in Data Science and Machine Learning by Analytics Vidhya!

An Unmissable Opportunity to Earn your Data Science Certificate Picture this – you are given the opportunity to take a high-quality course on a data science or machine learning topic(s) free of cost. And as the icing on an already delicious offering, you will even get a certificate upon completing the course! So not only do you get to embellish your blossoming data science skillset, you get a certificate proof of your accomplishments. Sounds too good to be true? Well, […]

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