The project focuses on analyzing social networks to identify distinct communities and influential users. Social networks are intricate webs of interactions and connections, reflecting complex social dynamics. Understanding these networks helps in mapping out how information spreads, identifying community structures, and recognizing key figures who influence these communities. This analysis is crucial for various applications, including marketing, information dissemination, and sociological research.
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection. Offers a wide range of social network datasets, including email networks, collaboration networks, and web graphs which are ideal for community detection and influencer identification tasks.
Facebook Large Page-Page Network Data Set A dataset capturing public pages and their mutual likes, useful for community detection
link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ishandutta/facebook-large-pagepage-network-data-set or https://snap.stanford.edu/data/
"A Survey of Community Detection Approaches: From Statistical Modeling to Deep Learning" by Di Jin, Zhizhi Yu, Pengfei Jiao, Shirui Pan, Dongxiao He, Jia Wu, Philip S. Yu, Weixiong Zhang.
This review introduces the methods for Community Detection from statistical method to deep learning method.
Comment: Read this first to get some knowledge about community detection
"Detection of Opinion Leaders in Social Networks: A Survey" by Seifallah Arrami, Wided Oueslati, Jalel Akaichi
This paper present different research works that aimed to detect opinions leaders in social network.
link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_36
NetworkX: A Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of complex networks.
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Gephi: An open-source network analysis and visualization software.
This project aims to leverage machine learning algorithms to improve the accuracy and reliability of weather predictions. By analyzing historical weather data, including temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, and direction, the project seeks to forecast future weather conditions. The initiative will explore various machine learning models to identify patterns and correlations within the data, enabling more precise predictions of weather phenomena such as rain, storms, and temperature changes.
Kaggle Weather Dataset. This dataset includes various weather conditions, which can be a good starting point for predictive modeling.
link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/muthuj7/weather-dataset
TensorFlow Weather Time Series Dataset TensorFlow provides a tutorial that uses a weather time series dataset recorded by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. The dataset contains 14 different features such as air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and humidity, collected from 2009 to 2016.
link: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/structured_data/time_series
"Survey on weather prediction using big data analystics" by P. Chandrashaker Reddy, A. Suresh Babu
This paper surveys methods for weather prediction using big data analytics, focusing on rainfall forecasting and the challenges of achieving accurate predictions. It emphasizes the importance of advanced models and data from meteorological departments to enhance forecasting techniques.
link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8117883/
Comment: Read this first to get some knowledge about weather prediction
"Deep Learning Weather Forecasting Techniques: Literature Survey" by Ayman M. Abdalla, Iyad H. Ghaith, Abdelfatah A. Tamimi
The paper provides a comparative analysis of deep learning models for weather forecasting, including CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs. It focuses on their performance in predicting weather at different timescales and discusses the importance of model architecture, dataset evaluation, and prediction accuracy.
link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9491774
Comment: Read this paper to get some knowledge about applying deep learning on weather prediction
MetPy: A Python package designed for meteorological data processing, offering tools for reading, visualizing, and interpreting weather data.
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GeoPandas: An extension of Pandas designed to make working with geospatial data in Python easier, useful for handling and analyzing weather data across different geographical locations.
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This project aims to harness machine learning algorithms to detect fraudulent activities in the financial sector. By analyzing patterns within transactional data, customer behavior, and financial records, the initiative seeks to identify anomalous and potentially fraudulent transactions. Implementing machine learning models will provide a dynamic tool for financial institutions to enhance their security measures, reduce losses due to fraud, and protect customer assets. The project encapsulates the development and deployment of predictive models that can sift through vast datasets to flag suspicious activities, showcasing the critical role of machine learning in bolstering financial security.
Credit Card Fraud Detection. This dataset contains transactions made by credit cards in September 2013 by European cardholders.
link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mlg-ulb/creditcardfraud
Synthetic Financial Datasets For Fraud Detection This dataset contains data that simulated with labeled fraudulent and legitimate transactions. This is a synthetic dataset generated using the simulator called PaySim.
"Financial Fraud Detection Based on Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review" by Abdulalem Ali, Shukor Abd Razak, Siti Hajar Othman, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa, Arafat Al-Dhaqm, Maged Nasser, Tusneem Elhassan, Hashim Elshafie and Abdu Saif
This review article provides a comprehensive examination of machine learning approaches to financial fraud detection, critically analyzing the effectiveness of various models and methodologies. It emphasizes the significance of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in tackling fraud, particularly in credit card transactions, highlighting the evolving landscape of financial security challenges and the pivotal role of advanced analytical techniques in their mitigation.
link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9637
Comment: Read this first to get some knowledge about Financial Fraud
"Financial Fraud: A Review of Anomaly Detection Techniques and Recent Advances" by Waleed Hilal, S. Andrew Gadsden, John Yawney
This paper conducts a thorough review of anomaly detection techniques applied in financial fraud detection, focusing on recent advancements in semi-supervised and unsupervised learning models. It examines the evolution of fraud detection systems, addressing the shift from supervised learning models, which face significant challenges, to the promising potential of semi-supervised and unsupervised models in recent literature.
link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417421017164
Comment: Read this paper to get some knowledge about Anomaly Detection
PyOD (Python Outlier Detection): Specializes in detecting anomalies and outliers in data, which is crucial for identifying fraudulent activities. PyOD includes more than 20 algorithms, ranging from classical LOF (Local Outlier Factor) to contemporary deep learning models like AutoEncoders.
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Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning focuses on the automated process of identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in text to assess the writer's sentiment towards specific topics or the overall context. This approach leverages machine learning techniques to distinguish between positive, negative, and neutral sentiments within a wide array of text sources such as social media posts, product reviews, and customer feedback. By harnessing the power of machine learning algorithms, sentiment analysis transcends traditional linguistic rule-based methods, allowing for more nuanced and accurate interpretations of the complex variations in human emotions. This capability is especially beneficial for applications in market research, brand monitoring, and enhancing customer experience, where understanding consumer sentiment is crucial.
Description: The Overview section focuses on the background of the field, describing clearly the specific problem that the field is solving, so that the reader can get a quick sense of whether or not this is an area of interest to them. Neither the Topic nor the Overview should contain technology-specific statements, such as Sentiment Analysis Using NLP, to provide the reader with an open-ended Topic!
Sentiment Labelled Sentences Dataset. This dataset includes labeled sentences from the IMDb, Amazon, and Yelp, perfect for binary sentiment classification tasks.
link: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/331/sentiment+labelled+sentences
Twitter Data set for Arabic Sentiment Analysis This dataset is a collection of Arabic-language tweets, specifically curated for training and evaluating machine learning models on the task of sentiment analysis in the Arabic language.
link: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/293/twitter+data+set+for+arabic+sentiment+analysis
"A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges" by Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam.
This review article takes an in-depth look at aspect-based sentiment analysis, an important branch of sentiment analysis that involves analyzing the emotional tendencies of specific aspects of a text
link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01054
Comment: Read this first to get some knowledge about sentiment analysis
"Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis of Short Texts" by Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Maira Gatti
This paper explores how deep convolutional neural networks can be used to handle sentiment analysis of short texts, which can be very helpful in understanding the sentiment analysis of different types of texts
link: https://aclanthology.org/C14-1008/
Comment: Classic paper in the field of Sentiment Analysis
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): A popular Python library that provides tools for handling text data, including tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and more.
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spaCy: Another powerful library for NLP in Python. It's known for its efficiency and ease of use in handling large text datasets.
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BERT and Transformers (Hugging Face): The Transformers library by Hugging Face provides a collection of state-of-the-art pre-trained models like BERT, GPT-2, T5, etc., which can be fine-tuned for specific tasks like sentiment analysis.
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The aim of this project is to develop a recommendation engine that mitigates decision fatigue and enhances user experiences on digital platforms. Utilizing sophisticated systems, the engine will analyze extensive datasets to suggest products, services, or content tailored to user preferences, based on their past behavior and other relevant factors. This personalization is crucial in aiding users to navigate the plethora of choices available online, enhancing engagement and satisfaction in domains such as entertainment, e-commerce, and social media. The project will leverage machine learning algorithms to refine and improve the accuracy of these recommendations continually.
MovieLens 20M Dataset. A comprehensive collection of movie ratings and tags from the MovieLens movie recommendation service, featuring over 20 million ratings and 465,564 tag applications across 27,278 movies by 138,493 users from January 1995 to March 2015. This dataset serves as an excellent basis for developing and evaluating recommendation systems.
link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/grouplens/movielens-20m-dataset
"Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems" by Yehuda Koren, Robert Bell, and Chris Volinsky
This paper introduces the matrix factorization technique, a cornerstone approach in recommendation systems.
link: https://datajobs.com/data-science-repo/Recommender-Systems-%5BNetflix%5D.pdf
"Deep Learning based Recommender System: A Survey and New Perspectives" by Shuai Zhang, Lina Yao, Aixin Sun, and Yi Tay
A survey covering the use of deep learning techniques in recommendation systems, providing insights into the field's advancements.
Scikit-Learn: Offers tools for building recommendation systems using algorithms like matrix factorization.
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Deep Learning Libraries (Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Keras): Support the development of complex models for recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering and content-based recommendations.
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The Iris Species Classification project leverages machine learning to accurately classify iris plants into one of three species: Iris Setosa, Iris Versicolour, and Iris Virginica. This task is facilitated by analyzing the unique physical attributes of each iris species, which include sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width. These features serve as the foundation for creating a predictive model that distinguishes between the species with high accuracy. The project not only embodies a classic problem in the field of machine learning but also provides a practical application of statistical pattern recognition and data analysis techniques.
** UCI Machine Learning Repository Iris Data Set ** This dataset is a foundational resource for the Iris Species Classification project, offering measurements for 150 iris plants across the three target species, with 50 instances for each. The dataset includes four features: sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width, crucial for training machine learning models to differentiate between the species. Description: The Dataset Suggestion section points to the primary dataset used for this project, detailing the types of data included and providing a direct link for easy access.
""Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification" by D. Michie, D.J. Spiegelhalter, and C.C. Taylor
This book provides a comprehensive overview of various classification methods, including statistical, neural, and machine learning approaches, with practical examples that can help understand the foundational concepts behind iris species classification.
"Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher M. Bishop
This textbook offers in-depth coverage of pattern recognition techniques and their application in machine learning, providing valuable insights into the methodologies that can be applied to the Iris Species Classification project.
Scikit-Learn: Offers tools for building recommendation systems using algorithms like matrix factorization.
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Deep Learning Libraries (Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Keras): Support the development of complex models for recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering and content-based recommendations.
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Machine Learning for Sales Forecasting harnesses the predictive power of machine learning algorithms to estimate future sales volumes based on historical data and influencing factors. This approach is critical for businesses seeking to optimize inventory management, allocate resources efficiently, and develop strategic marketing campaigns. By leveraging machine learning, companies can move beyond traditional forecasting methods, which often rely on simple extrapolation, to embrace models that consider complex patterns, seasonal variations, and the impact of external factors such as economic indicators and promotional activities. The capacity to predict sales with greater accuracy enables businesses to respond more agilely to market demands, minimize overstock and understock situations, and improve overall financial performance.
link: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/walmart-recruiting-store-sales-forecasting/overview/description
"Python for Data Analysis" by Wes McKinney"
While not exclusively about forecasting, this book is essential for anyone working with data in Python. It provides a thorough introduction to using pandas, a key Python library for data manipulation and analysis, which is crucial for preparing your dataset for modeling.
""Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists" by Andreas C. Müller & Sarah Guido
This book offers a practical introduction to machine learning with Python, focusing on the use of scikit-learn. It's a great resource for understanding the fundamentals of machine learning and how to apply them to real-world problems, such as sales forecasting.
Scikit-Learn: Offers tools for building recommendation systems using algorithms like matrix factorization.
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Deep Learning Libraries (Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Keras): Support the development of complex models for recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering and content-based recommendations.
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The project, Predicting Stock Prices Using Machine Learning, dives into the complex and dynamic world of financial markets to tackle the age-old investing mantra of "buy low, sell high". This endeavor seeks to demystify the patterns of stock price movements by applying machine learning algorithms on historical trading data. The objective is to forecast future stock prices, thus providing investors with insights that could potentially lead to more informed decision-making. The challenge lies in the unpredictable nature of the stock market, influenced by numerous factors including economic indicators, company performance, and global events. By leveraging machine learning, this project aims to decode the seemingly random fluctuations in stock prices, offering a quantitative tool to aid in the prediction of stock trends.
Huge Stock Market Dataset. This dataset encompasses a comprehensive collection of historical daily price and volume data for all US-based stocks and ETFs trading on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and NYSE MKT. It stands out due to its high-quality, granularity, and the breadth of financial instruments covered, making it an ideal candidate for developing and testing stock price prediction models.
link: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/borismarjanovic/price-volume-data-for-all-us-stocks-etfs
"Machine Learning for Stock Price Prediction: From Basics to Advanced" by Jason Brownlee
This comprehensive guide covers various aspects of applying machine learning to stock price prediction, from foundational concepts to more advanced techniques.
link: https://machinelearningmastery.com/start-here/#deep_learning_time_series
"Forecasting Stock Returns through Machine Learning Models" by Roberto Maestre and Yuwei Chen
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of different machine learning models for stock return prediction, comparing their performance and applicability.
link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417419307280
Scikit-Learn: Offers tools for building recommendation systems using algorithms like matrix factorization.
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Deep Learning Libraries (Pytorch, TensorFlow, and Keras): Support the development of complex models for recommendation systems, including collaborative filtering and content-based recommendations.
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