Shreya Rao, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:41:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Shreya Rao, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 NLP Illustrated, Part 3: Word2Vec https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-3-word2vec-5b2e12b6a63b/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:01:57 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-3-word2vec-5b2e12b6a63b/ An exhaustive and illustrated guide to Word2Vec with code!

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]]> NLP Illustrated, Part 2: Word Embeddings https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-2-word-embeddings-6d718ac40b7d/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:15:37 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-2-word-embeddings-6d718ac40b7d/ An illustrated and intuitive guide to word embeddings

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]]> NLP Illustrated, Part 1: Text Encoding https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-1-text-encoding-41ba06c0f512/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:01:57 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/nlp-illustrated-part-1-text-encoding-41ba06c0f512/ An illustrated guide to text-to-number translation, with code

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]]> Implementing Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-convolutional-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-bc1c4f00bd34/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:12:30 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-convolutional-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-bc1c4f00bd34/ Step-by-step code guide to building a Convolutional Neural Network

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]]> Implementing Neural Networks in TensorFlow (and PyTorch) https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-and-pytorch-3c1f097e412a/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:38:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-neural-networks-in-tensorflow-and-pytorch-3c1f097e412a/ Step-by-step code guide on building a Neural Network

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]]> Deep Learning Illustrated, Part 5: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-5-long-short-term-memory-lstm-d379fbbc9bc6/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:29:06 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-5-long-short-term-memory-lstm-d379fbbc9bc6/ An illustrated and intuitive guide on the inner workings of an LSTM

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]]> Deep Learning Illustrated, Part 4: Recurrent Neural Networks https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-4-recurrent-neural-networks-d0121f27bc74/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:24:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-4-recurrent-neural-networks-d0121f27bc74/ An illustrated and intuitive guide on the inner workings of an RNN and the Softmax Activation Function

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]]> Deep Learning Illustrated, Part 3: Convolutional Neural Networks https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-3-convolutional-neural-networks-96b900b0b9e0/ Sat, 11 May 2024 05:33:02 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-3-convolutional-neural-networks-96b900b0b9e0/ An illustrated and intuitive guide on the inner workings of a CNN

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]]> Deep Learning Illustrated, Part 2: How Does a Neural Network Learn? https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-2-how-does-a-neural-network-learn-481f70c1b474/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:15:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-illustrated-part-2-how-does-a-neural-network-learn-481f70c1b474/ An illustrated and intuitive guide to Neural Networks

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]]> Deep Learning Illustrated, Part 1: How Does a Neural Network Work? https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-illustrated-part-1-how-does-a-neural-network-work-c3f92ce3b462/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:02:59 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-illustrated-part-1-how-does-a-neural-network-work-c3f92ce3b462/ An illustrated and intuitive guide to Neural Networks

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]]> Machine Learning, Illustrated: Incremental Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-incremental-machine-learning-4d73747dc60c/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:41:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-incremental-machine-learning-4d73747dc60c/ How models learn new information over time, maintaining and building upon previous knowledge

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]]> CatBoost Regression: Break It Down For Me https://towardsdatascience.com/catboost-regression-break-it-down-for-me-16ed8c6c1eca/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:17:28 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/catboost-regression-break-it-down-for-me-16ed8c6c1eca/ A comprehensive (and illustrated) breakdown of the inner workings of CatBoost

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]]> Machine Learning, Illustrated: Opening Black Box Models with SHAP https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-opening-black-box-models-with-shap-9e92d0400680/ Mon, 08 May 2023 13:05:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-opening-black-box-models-with-shap-9e92d0400680/ How to explain any machine learning model using SHAP

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]]> Machine Learning, Illustrated: Evaluation Metrics for Classification https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-classification-evaluation-metrics-dfc33b373c43/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:18:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/machine-learning-illustrated-classification-evaluation-metrics-dfc33b373c43/ A comprehensive (and colorful) guide to everything you need to know about evaluating classification models

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]]> Back to Basics, Part Tres: Logistic Regression https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-tres-logistic-regression-e309de76bd66/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:06:05 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-tres-logistic-regression-e309de76bd66/ An illustrated guide to everything you need to know about Logistic Regression

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]]> Back To Basics, Part Dos: Gradient Descent https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-dos-linear-regression-cost-function-and-gradient-descent-e3d7d05c56fd/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:06:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-dos-linear-regression-cost-function-and-gradient-descent-e3d7d05c56fd/ An accessible perspective on essential machine learning concepts

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]]> Back To Basics, Part Uno: Linear Regression and Cost Function https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-uno-linear-regression-cost-function-and-gradient-descent-590dcb3eee46/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 06:34:43 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/back-to-basics-part-uno-linear-regression-cost-function-and-gradient-descent-590dcb3eee46/ An illustrated guide on essential machine learning concepts

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]]> DBSCAN Clustering: Break It Down For Me https://towardsdatascience.com/dbscan-clustering-break-it-down-for-me-859650a723af/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:42:04 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/dbscan-clustering-break-it-down-for-me-859650a723af/ An accessible introduction to a powerful algorithm

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]]> Hierarchical Clustering: Explain It To Me Like I’m 10 https://towardsdatascience.com/hierarchical-clustering-explain-it-to-me-like-im-10-f949f8f3f80/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:57:16 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/hierarchical-clustering-explain-it-to-me-like-im-10-f949f8f3f80/ This is part numero tres of the Explaining Machine Learning Algorithms to a 10-Year Old series. If you read the two previous ones about XGBoost Regression and K-Means Clustering, then you know the drill. We have a scary-sounding algorithm, so let’s strip it of its scary bits and understand the simple intuition behind it. In […]

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]]> K-Means Clustering: Explain It To Me Like I’m 10 https://towardsdatascience.com/k-means-clustering-explain-it-to-me-like-im-10-e0badf10734a/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:43:52 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/k-means-clustering-explain-it-to-me-like-im-10-e0badf10734a/ A friendly introduction to a perennially popular clustering algorithm

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