Itoro Liney

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Do you know the difference between Precision and Recall?

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...

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Where does machine learning bias come from?

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...

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Are algorithms truly racist or sexist?

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

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Is INEC really independent?

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.

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Train, Test and Validation sets? What are they?

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,...

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Those parameters are hyper and they need tuning.

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...

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Embracing my identity

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...

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Who would you hire?

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...