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In Excel 2016, Microsoft added Box and Whisker Charts. With this new feature, Microsoft has published a support document detailing How to Create a Box and Whisker Chart [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-box-and-whisker-chart-62f4219f-db4b-4754-aca8-4743f6190f0d] . These instructions are great if we already have data formatted into such an a table,…
Previously, we modified the MNIST For ML Beginners Tutorial to process Mini-MIAS imagery [http://jacob.vi/modifying-tensorflows-mnist-for-beginners-tutorial-to-search-for-cancer-in-mammograms/] . The results of this were not great. Let's try this again but with a simple Multilayer Convolutional Network (CNN) in TensorFlow [https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/mnist/pros/#build_a_…
Stanford in the news today with another deep-learning breakthrough in cancer diagnostics: Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists [http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/25/artificial-intelligence-used-identify-skin-cancer/] First, the impressive results: > The final product, the subject of a paper in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature,…
Hello, I'm Jacob. I perform technology and strategy consulting, including data analytics and machine learning. I blog about various projects I'm working on. If this topic is interesting or relevant to your organization let's talk - hello at jacob dot vi In Importing the National Provider Database, Part I [https:…
For Christmas this year, I gave a number of friends a copy of The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age [https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720] by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. I included the following letter with each copy of the book: > Earlier…
Hello, I'm Jacob. I perform technology and strategy consulting, including data analytics and machine learning. I blog about various projects I'm working on. If this topic is interesting or relevant to your organization let's talk - hello at jacob dot vi Each practicing doctor in America is issued a unique…
If you hadn't already heard, I am currently taking some time off from the rat race and spending the winter back on St Thomas. During this time, I will be exploring some intellectual pursuits that fell to the wayside over the past few years (like this blog!). I wanted to…
I am presently reading Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AAAS Selected Symposium), edited by Peter Szolovits [https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Medicine-selected-symposium/dp/0891589007/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478205510&sr=1-1&keywords=artificial+intelligence+in+medicine+peter+szolovits] . This book is an edited compilation of presentations from…