The AdaBoost data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? AdaBoost is a boosting algorithm which constructs a classifier. As you probably remember, a classifier takes a bunch of data …
PageRank data mining algorithm in plain English
The PageRank data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? PageRank is a link analysis algorithm designed to determine the relative importance of some object linked within a network of objects. …
Expectation-Maximization (EM) data mining algorithm in plain English
The EM data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? In data mining, expectation-maximization (EM) is generally used as a clustering algorithm (like k-means) for knowledge discovery. In statistics, the …
Apriori data mining algorithm in plain English
The Apriori data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? The Apriori algorithm learns association rules and is applied to a database containing a large number of transactions. What are …
Support Vector Machine (SVM) data mining algorithm in plain English
The SVM data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? Support vector machine (SVM) learns a hyperplane to classify data into 2 classes. At a high-level, SVM performs a similar …
k-means data mining algorithm in plain English
The k-means data mining algorithm is part of a longer article about many more data mining algorithms.What does it do? k-means creates $latex k$ groups from a set of objects so that the members of a group are more similar. …
What is Skycoin?
Skycoin is more than meets the eye. In this article, we partner with Henry Benjamin (from Skycoin) to learn more about Skycoin and Skywire. Read on to find out how this up-and-coming cryptocurrency works and what it means to be …
Obelisk algorithm
Some of the cryptocurrency problems stem from the Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS).With SKY these have been replaced by Obelisk which was developed to correct the inherent security flaws and the centralizing that happened with Bitcoin …
Skycoin vs. Bitcoin
Bitcoin has much more market share than Skycoin, yet that doesn’t make it superior even if it was the first cryptocurrency to hit the market. It is true they took the world by storm and the value has done nothing …