dataqa VS imodels

Hey, I am the creator and (only contributor today) of open-source https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa, a Python library to explore and annotate documents. It uses weak supervision, is based on spacy, and has a lot of opportunities to add more deep learning and ML functionality. I can guide you through it :-). This would be a great opportunity to be first and lead contributor of an open-source library (outside the creator).

I recently added a new feature to DataQA (https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa) to be able to extract entities from Wikipedia. All you need to do is upload a file with Wikipedia urls:

The open-source project is here: https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa. I have just released a feature which I have been working on for a while to solve a problem which I've seen a lot in industry: how to map entities found in text to large knowledge base ontologies.

The tool I developed and used for this problem: https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa

I have seen first hand at small and large companies how problems have been tackled with ML without trying a simple rule or heuristic first. And then, further down the line, the system has been compared to a few business rules put together, to find that the difference in performance did not explain the deployment of an ML system in the first place.

It's true that if your rules grow in complexity, this might make it harder to maintain, but the good thing about rules is that they tend to be fully explainable, and they can be encoded by domain experts. So the maintenance of such a system does not need to be done exclusively by an ML engineer anymore.

Here is where I insert my plug: I have developed a tool to create rules to solve NLP problems: https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa

After working in ML for more than a decade, I became frustrated over time with the lack of tools to create baselines using simple rules and heuristics. It is well known that most business problems out there can achieve decent baselines using only heuristics. This is why I have developed DataQA (https://github.com/dataqa/dataqa), which uses NLP rules to do common NLP annotation tasks, such as multiclass classification or named entity recognition.

- all domains requiring high interpretability absolutely ignore deep learning at all, and put all their research into traditional ML; see e.g. counterfactual examples, important interpretability methods in finance, or rule-based learning, important in medical or law applications

Next, this variable will be your target and you can use various supervised learning models to answer your question. Since interpretation is key, you can use something from here: https://github.com/csinva/imodels or do some black box models and use shab to understand which features contributed most.

Option 2) fit a model from https://github.com/csinva/imodels on the predicted values of the RF

Despite recent breakthroughs in the formulation and fitting of interpretable models, implementations are frequently challenging to locate, utilize, and compare. imodels solves this void by offering a single interface and implementation for a wide range of state-of-the-art interpretable modeling techniques, especially rule-based methods. imodels is basically a Python tool for predictive modeling that is simple, transparent, and accurate. It gives users a straightforward way to fit and use state-of-the-art interpretable models, all of which are compatible with scikit-learn (Pedregosa et al., 2011). These models can frequently replace black-box models while boosting interpretability and computing efficiency without compromising forecast accuracy. Continue Reading

Our package imodels is expanding our sklearn-compatible set of interpretable models and always looking for new contributors!