About Tirthajyoti Sarkar

Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar is a Sr. Principal Engineer at ON Semiconductor, where he works on state-of-the-art semiconductor technology development and applies AI/ML techniques for design automation, AI-centered hardware development, and predictive analytics. He contributes regularly to publications such as KDnuggets and TDS on diverse topics related to data science and machine learning. He has authored data science books and contributes to open source software. Tirthajyoti holds a Ph.D. in EE and is working on an M.S. degree in Computational Data Analytics. Email him at tirthajyoti at gmail[dot]com.

Tirthajyoti Sarkar Posts (24)

• Speed up your Numpy and Pandas with NumExpr Package - 01 Jul 2020
  
  We show how to significantly speed up your mathematical calculations in Numpy and Pandas using a small library.
• Complex logic at breakneck speed: Try Julia for data science - 20 May 2020
  
  We show a comparative performance benchmarking of Julia with an equivalent Python code to show why Julia is great for data science and machine learning.
• AI and Machine Learning for Healthcare - 14 May 2020
  
  Traditional business and technology sectors are not the only fields being impacted by AI. Healthcare is a field that is thought to be highly suitable for the applications of AI tools and techniques.
• Google’s New Explainable AI Service - 20 Dec 2019
  
  Google has started offering a new service for “explainable AI” or XAI, as it is fashionably called. Presently offered tools are modest, but the intent is in the right direction.
• Build Pipelines with Pandas Using pdpipe - 13 Dec 2019
  
  We show how to build intuitive and useful pipelines with Pandas DataFrame using a wonderful little library called pdpipe.
• Activation maps for deep learning models in a few lines of code - 10 Oct 2019
  
  We illustrate how to show the activation maps of various layers in a deep CNN model with just a couple of lines of code.
• Clustering Metrics Better Than the Elbow Method - 01 Oct 2019
  
  We show what metric to use for visualizing and determining an optimal number of clusters much better than the usual practice — elbow method.
• A Single Function to Streamline Image Classification with Keras - 23 Sep 2019
  
  We show, step-by-step, how to construct a single, generalized, utility function to pull images automatically from a directory and train a convolutional neural net model.
• Object-oriented programming for data scientists: Build your ML estimator - 30 Aug 2019
  
  Implement some of the core OOP principles in a machine learning context by building your own Scikit-learn-like estimator, and making it better.
• What is Benford’s Law and why is it important for data science? - 07 Aug 2019
  
  Benford’s law is a little-known gem for data analytics. Learn about how this can be used for anomaly or fraud detection in scientific or technical publications.