Tag: machine learning

• Affiliate’s health startup receives $8.5 million in funding

  

  By Robin Brooks KenSci, a health data startup co-founded by Ankur Teredesai and Samir Manjure, has raised $8.5 million in a Series A investment round. The startup uses machine learning technology that “helps doctors predict who might get sick and how sick they might get, and take actions to help them before it happens.” (1) […]

• eScience fellows release new music dataset

  

  By Robin Brooks Sham Kakade, senior data science fellow, and Zaid Harchaoui, data science fellow, are part of a UW team that has developed MusicNet, a “classical music dataset … which enables machine learning algorithms to learn the features of classical music from scratch.” According to a UW press release, “MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale […]