Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts
When we look very closely at images generated by neural networks, we often see a strange checkerboard pattern of artifacts. It’s more obvious in some cases than others, but a…
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Unlock Effortless Power BI Theming with the New Gallery Feature –
The Power BI Tips Theme Generator tool already allows you to easily interact with, and adjust, all the visual properties, wireframes, etc… How could we possibly make Power BI Theme…
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Entrepreneurial Insights for Expecting Mothers on Heather Sager’s “Hint of Hustle” Podcast
We recently added two more members to the Depict Data Studio team! In this podcast episode, I sat down with Heather Sager to share behind-the-scenes tips on managing parenthood and…
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Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network
Let’s start with generating new strokes based on your handwriting input Neural networks are an extremely successful approach to machine learning, but it’s tricky to understand why they behave the…
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Enable Predictive Capabilities in Tableau using Analytics Extensions
The typical analytical ecosystem has two silos: business intelligence and data science. Data scientists have a wide range of options to choose from when it comes to programming languages and…
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Research Debt
Achieving a research-level understanding of most topics is like climbing a mountain. Aspiring researchers must struggle to understand vast bodies of work that came before them, to learn techniques, and…
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Why Momentum Really Works
Step-size α = 0.02 Momentum β = 0.99 We often think of Momentum as a means of dampening oscillations and speeding up the iterations, leading to faster convergence. But it…
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Feature Visualization
There is a growing sense that neural networks need to be interpretable to humans. The field of neural network interpretability has formed in response to these concerns. As it matures,…
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Redesigning a Thesis Chapter | Depict Data Studio
I’m an epidemiologist and public health researcher who studies health policies on infectious disease. I got the opportunity to work with a public health agency which I was really exited…
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Sequence Modeling with CTC
Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes…
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