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The simple way to think about this is that Precision is about your Prediction, and Recall is about Reality. If you run a police department and your job was to identify thieves, precision asks the question, of all...
Q: Do I need to go out and vote? A: YES, please make sure you go out and vote on election day. The data you send to us will not be used by INEC...
Given Nigeria’s history with corruption, how do we know that INEC is independent and why should we trust the results that INEC declares? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to validate INEC’s result?
My next article gives detail of a project I have built to do just that.
Today, I’m going to talk about something we hear quite a lot about when we talk about machine learning. Train, test and validation splits are very important concepts in the model building process. If,...
Growing up back in the 80’s and 90’s, watching TV was a luxury in comparison to what it is today. Not only did the TV station start broadcasting at 3pm and finish at midnight...
How do you identify? Just over 5 years ago, I decided to make a career change. Armed with a new and shiny master’s degree, I was walking out of my life as an engineer...
Bias creeps into machine learning (ML) systems in lots of ways. When it does that, the system becomes sub-optimal. In this post, let us look at how past data can play a role in...
Fixing discriminatory algorithms is not about giving the under-privileged group a more favourable outcome than the privileged group. It is about ensuring that qualified members are given the right outcome irrespective of what group they belong to
As a hiring manager, you receive a job application each from Chris Liney and Itoro Umoren. Both candidates have identical experience and qualifications, who would you think is the better candidate? “No two people...