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Şub

In my last post, I wrote that I am going to work on Machine Learning for my master’s thesis. I am coding an interactive machine learning framework which enables users to run basic/advanced machine learning algorithms online.

In fact, component based frameworks for collecting together data input/output, pre-processing, classification, clustering, regression and visualization schemes and alike have been implemented before in various languages, for use on different platforms, and operated on a variety of data formats. But unfortunately, due to platform depended solutions, it is difficult to try out and compare different machine learning algorithms quickly and easily.

Hopefully, with ML-LAB will provide a sophisticated and easy-to-use wireable interface for creating the workflow. You can upload a dataset, and put a classification algorithm (currently supports K-NN, Naive Bayes and ID3) after it, then wire it to a dimensionality reduction algorithm (PCA, LDA or Isomap), and if you want to, you can wire the results to another algorithm, … It has no connection limits, you can create a workflow with a hundred connections for a single dataset.

The collection of machine learning algorithms are purely implemented in Python and Django is used for interface and matplotlib for the graphics. I’m sharing some screenshots of it, you’ll notice it looks like Yahoo! Pipes a lot. Hopefully, it will be online at www.ml-lab.com after the core library finished.

You can follow ML-Lab on twitter! http://twitter.com/ml_lab

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Ara

By mid of November, I left my job after working two years at TUBITAK UEKAE. I worked with one of the best Open Source teams in Turkey and led Pardus Security Team, therefore I am a bit sad about leaving that early..

Fortunately, the reason for leaving my job leads me closer to my dreams: I have been selected as a Fulbright Ph.D. fellow and hopefully, I am going to continue my education in USA next year. As I am currently doing my master degree at Computer Engineering Department, Bogazici University, I had to give my full energy and time to finish my education in Turkey, so I decided to contribute Pardus as a non-TUBITAK employee. >>

Therefore, I will continue my career in Perceptual Intelligence Lab. at Bogazici University and continue work on my master thesis with Prof. Ethem Alpaydin on Machine Learning.

I also would like to thank to all of my colleagues who supported me to apply for Fulbright fellowship and to take the right decisions for my career. Everything is gonna be awesome! =]

* From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy