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Exciting New Project Announcement - Using AI to Improve Apprenticeship Achievement Rates

The Knowledge Ladder are proud to announce a new project to develop a machine learning algorithm to predict if apprentices are likely to...

What Skills Do You Need to Succeed in Data Science?

Over the years I have formed a view that data science has 4 cornerstones. Maths & statistics is certainly one of them. A good...

The Value of Data Analytics to Leaders and Managers

In the era of data science and data being “the new oil” what is the value of data analytics to today’s leaders and managers and how can...

Aligning Supply and Demand Using Data Analytics in Further Education

In this article Graham Harrison, the CIO of The Knowledge Ladder, explores how high end data analytics can be used to link supply and...

Stratified Random Sampling Using Python and Pandas

How to stratify sample data to match population data in order to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. Click here to...

Calculating and Setting Thresholds to Optimise Logistic Regression Performance

How to create a simple class to optimise thresholds for precision, recall, f1 score, accuracy, tpr - fpr or custom cost functions. Click...

How to Build an Interactive Confidence Interval Calculator in Python

Building a re-usable interactive and batch calculator for normal and binomial confidence intervals in Python and Jupyter Notebook. Click...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Decision Trees in Python

From first principles to deployment in a production environment including worked examples and easy-to-follow explanations. Click here to...

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