Browsing by Author "Makrehchi, Masoud"
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Building an on-ball screen dataset using supervised and unsupervised learning
Seward, Neil (2018-09-01)Applications of statistics and machine learning in sports analytics have made significant advances since the early days of Bill James' publication, Baseball Analyst. In the publication, analysts and researchers would ... -
Machine learning classifiers for critical cardiac conditions
Gilani, Mehrin (2016-04-01)Cardiac diseases are one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Current methods of diagnosing cardiac conditions require a manual and visual analysis of ECG and heart rate (RR interval) data. In this thesis, novel ... -
Predicting Bitcoin: a robust model for predicting Bitcoin price directions based on network influencers
Gillett, Jonathan (2016-10-01)The ability to predict financial markets has tremendous potential to limit exposure to risk and provide better assurances of annualized gains. In this thesis, a model for predicting the future daily price of Bitcoin is ... -
Proposing an ensemble-based model using data clustering and machine learning algorithms for effective predictions
Azimlu Shanajani, Fateme (2019-08-01)One of the most important tasks in machine learning is prediction. Data scientists use various regression methods to find the most appropriate and accurate model applicable for each type of datasets. This study proposes a ... -
Pushing the limits of traditional unsupervised learning
Gultepe, Eren (2018-08-01)Unsupervised learning has important applications in extremely large data settings such as in medical, biological, social, and environmental data. Typically in these settings, copious amounts of data are collected, with the ... -
A temporal topic model for social trend prediction
Aghababaei, Somayyeh (2017-08-01)Social media provides increasing opportunities for users to voluntarily share their thoughts and concerns in a large volume of data. While user-generated data from each individual may not provide considerable information, ... -
Unsupervised brand name extraction using domain adaptation
Towhidi, Afsaneh (2019-08-01)Business intelligence and analytics is an area of research that analyzes the existing business data to extract the insights needed for a successful business planning. Textual data derived from tweets, forum posts, and blogs ... -
User-centric analytics for expert crowds
Chepurna, Iuliia (2015-09-01)Pervasiveness and permissiveness of social media made content verification an integral part of any analysis involving online generated data. The most natural and convenient way to assess content trustworthiness and validity ...