scholarly journals Role of absence in academic success: an analysis using visualization tools

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronak Etemadpour ◽  
Yongcheng Zhu ◽  
Qizhi Zhao ◽  
Yilun Hu ◽  
Bohan Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Program Coordinators ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Data Collections

AbstractUnderstanding the academic performance of students in colleges is an essential topic in Education research field. Educators, program coordinators and professors are interested in understanding how students are learning specific topics, how specific topics may influence the learning of other topics, how students’ grades/attendances in each course may represent important indicators to measure their performance, among other tasks. The use of data visualization and analytics is expanding in education institutions to perform a variety of tasks related to data processing and gaining into data-informed insights. In this paper, we present a visual analytic tool that combines data visualization and machine learning techniques to perform some visual analysis of students’ data from program courses. Two educational data collections were used to guide the creation of i) predictive models employing a variety of well known machine learning strategies, attempting to predict students’ future grade based on grade and attendance previous semesters and ii) a set interactive layouts that highlight the relationship between grades and attendance, also including additional variables such as gender, parents education level, among others. We performed several experiments, also using these data collections, to evaluate the layouts ability of highlighting interesting patterns, and we obtained promising results, demonstrating that such analysis may help the education experts to understand deficiencies on course structures.

THE USE OF DATA MINING IN DETECTING CREDIT CARD FRAUD

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley Austin
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
High Detection Rate ◽  
Credit Card Fraud ◽  
Real Time Processing ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
Use Of Data

Abstract— Credit card fraud is a serious problem for e-commerce retailers with UK merchants reporting losses of $574.2M in 2020. As a result, effective fraud detection systems must be in place to ensure that payments are processed securely in an online environment. From the literature, the detection of credit card fraud is challenging due to dataset imbalance (genuine versus fraudulent transactions), real-time processing requirements, and the dynamic behavior of fraudsters and customers. It is proposed in this paper that the use of machine learning could be an effective solution for combating credit card fraud.According to research, machine learning techniques can play a role in overcoming the identified challenges while ensuring a high detection rate of fraudulent transactions, both directly and indirectly. Even though both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have been suggested, the flaws in both methods point to the necessity for hybrid approaches.

scholarly journals Predicting Future Service Use in Dutch Mental Healthcare: A Machine Learning Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasper van Mens ◽  
Sascha Kwakernaak ◽  
Richard Janssen ◽  
Wiepke Cahn ◽  
Joran Lokkerbol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Individual Treatment ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Machine Learning Approach

AbstractA mental healthcare system in which the scarce resources are equitably and efficiently allocated, benefits from a predictive model about expected service use. The skewness in service use is a challenge for such models. In this study, we applied a machine learning approach to forecast expected service use, as a starting point for agreements between financiers and suppliers of mental healthcare. This study used administrative data from a large mental healthcare organization in the Netherlands. A training set was selected using records from 2017 (N = 10,911), and a test set was selected using records from 2018 (N = 10,201). A baseline model and three random forest models were created from different types of input data to predict (the remainder of) numeric individual treatment hours. A visual analysis was performed on the individual predictions. Patients consumed 62 h of mental healthcare on average in 2018. The model that best predicted service use had a mean error of 21 min at the insurance group level and an average absolute error of 28 h at the patient level. There was a systematic under prediction of service use for high service use patients. The application of machine learning techniques on mental healthcare data is useful for predicting expected service on group level. The results indicate that these models could support financiers and suppliers of healthcare in the planning and allocation of resources. Nevertheless, uncertainty in the prediction of high-cost patients remains a challenge.

Diagnosis of rotating machine unbalance using machine learning algorithms on vibration orbital features

2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632092983
Author(s):  
Leonardo S Jablon ◽  
Sergio L Avila ◽  
Bruno Borba ◽  
Gustavo L Mourão ◽  
Fabrizio L Freitas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Vibration Measurement ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Rolling Element Bearings ◽  
Rotating Machines ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Rotating Machine ◽  
Rolling Element

The diagnosis of failures in rotating machines has been subject to studies because of its benefits to maintenance improvement. Condition monitoring reduces maintenance costs, increases reliability and availability, and extends the useful life of critical rotating machinery in industry ambiance. Machine learning techniques have been evolving rapidly, and its applications are bringing better performance to many fields. This study presents a new strategy to improve the diagnosis performance of rotating machines using machine learning strategies on vibration orbital features. The advantage of using orbits in comparison to other vibration measurement systems is the simplicity of the instrumentation involved as well as the information multiplicity contained in the orbit. On the other hand, rolling element bearings are prevalent in industrial machinery. This type of bearing has less orbital oscillation and is noisier than sliding contact bearings. Therefore, it is more difficult to extract useful information. Practical results on an industry motor workbench with rolling element bearings are presented, and the algorithm robustness is evaluated by calculating diagnosis accuracy using inputs with different signal-to-noise ratios. For this kind of noisy scenario where signal analysis is naturally tough, the algorithm classifies approximately 85% of the time correctly. In a completely harsh environment, where the signal-to-noise ratio can be smaller than −25 dB, the accuracy achieved is close to 60%. These statistics show that the strategy proposed can be robust for rotating machine unbalance condition diagnosis even in the worst scenarios, which is required for industrial applications.

scholarly journals Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246102
Author(s):  
Daekyum Kim ◽  
Sang-Hun Kim ◽  
Taekyoung Kim ◽  
Brian Byunghyun Kang ◽  
Minhyuk Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Soft Materials ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Soft Robots ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Wearable Robots ◽  
Soft Actuators

Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling, calibration, and control in that the innate characteristics of the soft materials can cause complex behaviors due to non-linearity and hysteresis. To overcome these limitations, recent studies have applied various approaches based on machine learning. This paper presents existing machine learning techniques in the soft robotic fields and categorizes the implementation of machine learning approaches in different soft robotic applications, which include soft sensors, soft actuators, and applications such as soft wearable robots. An analysis of the trends of different machine learning approaches with respect to different types of soft robot applications is presented; in addition to the current limitations in the research field, followed by a summary of the existing machine learning methods for soft robots.

scholarly journals Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques for Cyber Security Intrusion Detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 4084-4090
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Data Stream ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Examination Paper ◽  
Discovery Rates

An interference discovery framework is customizing that screens a singular or an arrangement of PCs for toxic activities that are away for taking or blue-penciling information or spoiling framework shows. The most methodology used as a piece of the present interference recognition framework is not prepared to deal with the dynamic and complex nature of computerized attacks on PC frameworks. In spite of the way that compelling adaptable methodologies like various frameworks of AI can realize higher discovery rates, cut down bogus alert rates and reasonable estimation and correspondence cost. The use of data mining can realize ceaseless model mining, request, gathering and littler than ordinary data stream. This examination paper portrays a connected with composing audit of AI and data delving procedures for advanced examination in the assistance of interference discovery. In perspective on the number of references or the congruity of a rising methodology, papers addressing each procedure were recognized, examined, and compacted. Since data is so fundamental in AI and data mining draws near, some striking advanced educational records used as a piece of AI and data burrowing are depicted for computerized security is shown, and a couple of recommendations on when to use a given system are given.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Using Data Visualization and Machine Learning Applications

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammet Fatih Ak
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Cancer Detection ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Machine Learning Applications ◽  
Cancer Types ◽  
Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Using Data

In the developing world, cancer death is one of the major problems for humankind. Even though there are many ways to prevent it before happening, some cancer types still do not have any treatment. One of the most common cancer types is breast cancer, and early diagnosis is the most important thing in its treatment. Accurate diagnosis is one of the most important processes in breast cancer treatment. In the literature, there are many studies about predicting the type of breast tumors. In this research paper, data about breast cancer tumors from Dr. William H. Walberg of the University of Wisconsin Hospital were used for making predictions on breast tumor types. Data visualization and machine learning techniques including logistic regression, k-nearest neighbors, support vector machine, naïve Bayes, decision tree, random forest, and rotation forest were applied to this dataset. R, Minitab, and Python were chosen to be applied to these machine learning techniques and visualization. The paper aimed to make a comparative analysis using data visualization and machine learning applications for breast cancer detection and diagnosis. Diagnostic performances of applications were comparable for detecting breast cancers. Data visualization and machine learning techniques can provide significant benefits and impact cancer detection in the decision-making process. In this paper, different machine learning and data mining techniques for the detection of breast cancer were proposed. Results obtained with the logistic regression model with all features included showed the highest classification accuracy (98.1%), and the proposed approach revealed the enhancement in accuracy performances. These results indicated the potential to open new opportunities in the detection of breast cancer.

scholarly journals Air Temperature Forecasting Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Review

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Cifuentes ◽  
Geovanny Marulanda ◽  
Antonio Bello ◽  
Javier Reneses
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Temperature Forecasting ◽  
The Government

Efforts to understand the influence of historical climate change, at global and regional levels, have been increasing over the past decade. In particular, the estimates of air temperatures have been considered as a key factor in climate impact studies on agricultural, ecological, environmental, and industrial sectors. Accurate temperature prediction helps to safeguard life and property, playing an important role in planning activities for the government, industry, and the public. The primary aim of this study is to review the different machine learning strategies for temperature forecasting, available in the literature, presenting their advantages and disadvantages and identifying research gaps. This survey shows that Machine Learning techniques can help to accurately predict temperatures based on a set of input features, which can include the previous values of temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, rain and wind speed measurements, among others. The review reveals that Deep Learning strategies report smaller errors (Mean Square Error = 0.0017 °K) compared with traditional Artificial Neural Networks architectures, for 1 step-ahead at regional scale. At the global scale, Support Vector Machines are preferred based on their good compromise between simplicity and accuracy. In addition, the accuracy of the methods described in this work is found to be dependent on inputs combination, architecture, and learning algorithms. Finally, further research areas in temperature forecasting are outlined.

Toward understanding the topical structure of hospitality literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 3386-3411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunhye (Olivia) Park ◽  
Bongsug Chae ◽  
Junehee Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Academic Publications

Purpose This paper aims to identify the intellectual structure of four leading hospitality journals over 40 years by applying mixed-method approach, using both machine learning and traditional statistical analyses. Design/methodology/approach Abstracts from all 4,139 articles published in four top hospitality journals were analyzed using the structured topic modeling and inferential statistics. Topic correlation and community detection were applied to identify strengths of correlations and sub-groups of topics. Trend visualization and regression analysis were used to quantify the effects of the metadata (i.e. year of publication and journal) on topic proportions. Findings The authors found 50 topics and eight subgroups in the hospitality journals. Different evolutionary patterns in topic popularity were demonstrated, thereby providing the insights for popular research topics over time. The significant differences in topical proportions were found across the four leading hospitality journals, suggesting different foci in research topics in each journal. Research limitations/implications Combining machine learning techniques with traditional statistics demonstrated potential for discovering valuable insights from big text data in hospitality and tourism research contexts. The findings of this study may serve as a guide to understand the trends in the research field as well as the progress of specific areas or subfields. Originality/value It is the first attempt to apply topic modeling to academic publications and explore the effects of article metadata with the hospitality literature.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches to Educational Data Mining

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Hernández-Blanco ◽  
Boris Herrera-Flores ◽  
David Tomás ◽  
Borja Navarro-Colorado
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Mining Machine ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Techniques

Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a research field that focuses on the application of data mining, machine learning, and statistical methods to detect patterns in large collections of educational data. Different machine learning techniques have been applied in this field over the years, but it has been recently that Deep Learning has gained increasing attention in the educational domain. Deep Learning is a machine learning method based on neural network architectures with multiple layers of processing units, which has been successfully applied to a broad set of problems in the areas of image recognition and natural language processing. This paper surveys the research carried out in Deep Learning techniques applied to EDM, from its origins to the present day. The main goals of this study are to identify the EDM tasks that have benefited from Deep Learning and those that are pending to be explored, to describe the main datasets used, to provide an overview of the key concepts, main architectures, and configurations of Deep Learning and its applications to EDM, and to discuss current state-of-the-art and future directions on this area of research.

scholarly journals Big Data Analytics to Increase the Agricultural Yield by Using Machine Learning Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
V. Sudha ◽  
S. Mohan ◽  
S. Arivalagan
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Techniques

Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. Big data are emerging précised and viable analytical tool in agricultural research field. This review paper facilitates the farmers in selecting the right crops and appropriate cropping pattern for a particular locality. A modern trend in the Agriculture domain has made people realize the importance of big data. It provides a methodology for facing challenges in agricultural production, by applying this Algorithm, using machine learning techniques. The different machine learning techniques survey is presented in this paper to realize enhanced monitory benefits in a particular area. A study of machine learning algorithms for big data Analytic is also done and presented in this paper.

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