Data Stories: Machine Learning Use Cases
        
        An in-depth use case about how machine learning drives sophisticated recommendation engines and recent research on avoiding discrimination in learning algorithms.
        
			- By Lindsay Stares
 - April 19, 2017
 
		
         
Data in the Service of Style
 
Scroll slowly through this algorithms tour and get a peek at all the different ways data science is used at online fashion retailer Stitch Fix. Recommendation systems, natural language processing, and matchmaking algorithms are among the technologies that work together to power this data-driven company.
 
Calculating Defaults and Avoiding Discrimination
 
This research explores how you might optimize a scoring system -- in this example, for granting a loan -- such that you eliminate discrimination. The webpage includes interactive graphics and a link to the full paper.
 
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            
        
        
                
                    About the Author
                    
                
                    
                    
Lindsay Stares is a production editor at TDWI.  You can contact her here.