Author and Publisher at MLtechniques.com. Machine learning scientist, mathematician, book author (Wiley), patent owner, former post-doc at Cambridge University, former VC-funded executive, with 20+ years of corporate experience including CNET, NBC, Visa, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, eBay. Vincent also founded and co-founded a few start-ups, including one with a successful exit (Data Science Central acquired by Tech Target).
This article is intended to users relying on machine learning solutions offered by third party vendors. It applies to platforms, dashboards, traditional software, or even external pieces of code that are too time consuming to modify. One of the goals is to turn such systems into explainable AI.
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