Princess Peach rescued from the claws of Bowser at our Super Mario Hackathon

At 21 april 2023, we held an epic hackathon where 10 teams from KPN, Rabobank, DPG, Athora, ANWB, UWV, Lifetri, and Eneco joined forces to rescue our beloved Princess Peach from the claws of Bowser. It was a fierce battle, but in the end, only one team emerged victorious. And who was that, you may […]

Let’s get balanced! A simple guide on how to deal with class imbalance in your binary data

At Cmotions we’ve always had a lot of discussion amongst colleagues whether or not to balance our datasets when building a predictive model. Everyone has their own personal preference and way of working, but which approach is “the best”? We simply didn’t know until we stumbled upon this paper written by Jacques Wainer and Rodrigo […]

Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning Models SHAP vs LIME for model explanation
Equal opportunities in AI: an example
Reinforcement Learning in Python to play Snake
Use Reinforcement Learning to teach the computer to play Snake

At Cmotions we love to learn from each other and that is why we regularly collaborate on internal projects, in which we can express our creativity, curiosity and eagerness to learn. In this article we want to share what we did in the ‘Snake’ project, where we learned the computer to play snake using Reinforcement […]

Topic Modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

If you would like to read more about Topic Modeling, please have a look at our article ‘An in-depth Introduction to Topic Modeling using LDA and BERTopic‘ and make sure to check out the notebook generated based on a deep learning approach, BERTopic. If you are in general interested in NLP tasks then you are […]

Topic Modeling with BERTopic

If you would like to read more about Topic Modeling, please have a look at our article ‘An in-depth Introduction to Topic Modeling using LDA and BERTopic‘. Moreover, make sure to check out the notebook generated based on a traditional approach, LDA. If you are in general interested in NLP tasks then you are in […]

What do I do with my emotions?
Introduction to Emotion Detection

If you are interested in the evolution of technology when it comes to text mining tools and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, then you are in the right place! This article presents an interesting NLP task: Emotion Detection. We are introducing what emotion detection is as well as the beneficial function that many fields can […]