Machine learning algorithms learn from data. It is critical that you feed them the right data for the problem you want to solve. Even if you have good data, you need to make sure that it is in a useful scale, format and even that meaningful features are included. In this post you will learn how to prepare data for a machine learning algorithm. This is a big topic and you will cover the essentials.

Humanyze has rolled out Wyze, its flagship product that is designed to measure social interactions and improve teamwork and processes in companies. BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humanyze, the global leader in people analytics technology, announced 4M in Series A financing today from Romulus Capital. The announcement comes as Humanyze rolls out the first of its kind Wyze people analytics platform to its strong Fortune 500 customer base in the US and industry leaders in Japan with the goal of making large corporations more agile and accurate about their most valuable resource (people), and to make these same people more in control of their performance and improvement. "Our customers – which include the largest multinationals and consulting firms – are investing heavily in technology and personnel to make full use of our data-driven people analytics platform. Employees are almost universally opting in as they see the individual benefits. These additional resources from Romulus provide us strong footing to support new customers and grow with them over the long term," Humanyze CEO Ben Waber said.

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The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, combines off-the-shelf robotic hardware, time-tested sensor technology and improvised software -- and none of the attributes that make surgeons the hard-charging stars of their profession. But a new study suggests it could become an operating room workhorse anyway, nudging aside some doctors well before the patient's incision is closed. In a series of trial runs, STAR sutured incisions with deft, even strokes that surpassed those of experienced surgeons and an existing robotic system. Without any human oversight, STAR manipulated tissue that can stretch, twist and retract unpredictably, and sewed it up well enough to withstand a surge of hydraulic pressure from within. And by all accounts, it never complained about its hours or pay. The STAR system has the potential to speed some of surgery's most time-consuming work, doing it with fewer mistakes and potentially reducing costly and dangerous surgical complications, according to the authors of a new study that put the robot through its paces.

Photo by Hamish Irvine via Flickr, licensed under CC by 2.0 If drones are going to be effective fliers, they could stand to take a page from insects' book of tricks. Researchers at the University of Sheffield are now turning to honeybees to figure out how they manage to avoid running into things. It's generally known that bees estimate the angular velocity of the things around them as they fly. However, as far as is known, the bee brain only has the neural circuitry for determining the direction something is moving in, not the speed. "This is the reason why bees are confused by windows--since they are transparent they generate hardly any optic flow as bees approach them," lead investigator Professor James Marshall, said in a statement.

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Almost as if robots and humans are now locked in a game of "anything you can do, I can do better," the latest move is a robot capable of performing fine surgical operations with minimal human supervision. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot – more catchily called STAR – has been developed to perform soft tissue operations using its robotic arm and some detailed computer algorithms. So far, the robot has already been able to suture together the intestines of four living pigs, all of which survived with no complications, at the Children's National Health System in Washington, DC. The researchers say the robot performed about 60 percent of the surgical operations by itself, with the rest of the work requiring only minor adjustments. Taking into consideration things such as consistency, the amount of time to perform the surgery, and the number of mistakes, they compared STAR's performance to that of a human.

Merging beliefs requires the plausibility of the sources of the information to be merged. They are typically assumed equally reliable in lack of hints indicating otherwise; yet, a recent line of research spun from the idea of deriving this information from the revision process itself. In particular, the history of previous revisions and previous merging examples provide information for performing subsequent mergings. Yet, no examples or previous revisions may be available. In spite of the apparent lack of information, something can still be inferred by a try-and-check approach: a relative reliability ordering is assumed, the merging process is performed based on it, and the result is compared with the original information. The outcome of this check may be incoherent with the initial assumption, like when a completely reliable source is rejected some of the information it provided. In such cases, the reliability ordering assumed in the first place can be excluded from consideration. The first theorem of this article proves that such a scenario is indeed possible. Other results are obtained under various definition of reliability and merging.

Biological systems are often modelled at different levels of abstraction depending on the particular aims/resources of a study. Such different models often provide qualitatively concordant predictions over specific parametrisations, but it is generally unclear whether model predictions are quantitatively in agreement, and whether such agreement holds for different parametrisations. Here we present a generally applicable statistical machine learning methodology to automatically reconcile the predictions of different models across abstraction levels. Our approach is based on defining a correction map, a random function which modifies the output of a model in order to match the statistics of the output of a different model of the same system. We use two biological examples to give a proof-of-principle demonstration of the methodology, and discuss its advantages and potential further applications.

The winner for our second data science competition is Tom De Smedt, biostatistician completing a Ph.D program at University of Leuven, Belgium. His special interests are in spatial statistics, environmental epidemiology, novel regression techniques and data visualization. The competition consisted of simulating data and testing the Jackknife regression technique recently developed in our laboratory, on correlated features or variables. The technique provides an approximation to standard regression, but is far more robust and deemed suitable for automated or black-box data science. The easiest version consists of pretending that variables are uncorrelated, to very quickly obtain robust regression coefficients that are easy to interpret.