[HN Gopher] Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow mo...
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Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow models in Excel
Author : faja2000
Score : 75 points
Date : 2021-09-25 14:17 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| kzrdude wrote:
| (Serious question) The video voiceover is a speech synthesis,
| right? Or is it a really consistent/plain talking person?
| faja2000 wrote:
| Yes, Google-cloud/text-to-speech en-US-Wavenet-J
| punnerud wrote:
| Inspired by the excel examples from the (free) fast.ai course?
| https://github.com/fastai/courses/tree/master/deeplearning1/...
| jonbaer wrote:
| Just a question about these type of apps/plugins, when it says
| something like this: "Add-in capabilities When this add-in is
| used, it Can read and make changes to your document Can send data
| over the Internet" is that isolated to just the pane you are
| currently on with the plugin?
| faja2000 wrote:
| Yes, the data is only read from the active worksheet. And your
| data is not sent over the internet. The trained model is stored
| on a server, but your data stays on your machine.
| streamofdigits wrote:
| The spreadsheet is a killer app that nobody has yet figured out
| how it fits in the new era. Godspeed with your venture but keep
| in mind that scikit-learn has been built by an open source
| community.
| alexcnwy wrote:
| Looks interesting.
|
| BTW you can hack together something similar with the excellent
| ExcelDNA C# library.
| narush wrote:
| Super cool. This is the opposite angle from the approach we're
| taking at Mito [1].
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| Instead of extending Excel to support more advanced
| functionality, we're extending Python environments to support
| more basic spreadsheet functionality. So: basic Python users
| doing data science can use a point and click environment that
| they are more familiar with.
|
| Interesting difference in user base as a result of this opposite
| approach. I also don't envy you building an Excel add-in... we
| tried that first and didn't love it :-)
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| [1] https://trymito.io/hn
| digitcatphd wrote:
| This is really incredible and brings enormous democratization to
| AI/ML applications.
| avnigo wrote:
| *using an Excel addon
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| Great nonetheless, and not to take anything away from the
| project, but I guess what I was expecting from the title, however
| ambitious, was an Excel-native solution.
| im_down_w_otp wrote:
| Blargh. Me too. I was really hoping this was a deep-dive into
| an incredible, if beautifully deranged, misuse of Excel.
| nerdponx wrote:
| I've heard legends of people fitting shallow feedforward NNs
| with pure Excel formulas.
|
| I once interned for an economist who was using recursive
| Excel formulas for some kind of iterative optimization
| algorithm. I don't remember what it was, probably some
| iterative least squares thing.
|
| I also was a research assistant for an economist who fit
| linear regressions with hand-written routines in Matlab. For
| some reason they felt more comfortable using Matlab's QR
| decomposition instead of just using the built-in linear
| modeling tools in R or even Stata.
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| Some people just want to use their favorite tool even if it
| makes no sense to do so.
| 7thaccount wrote:
| Doesn't Matlab fit equations like that easily in a built-in
| fashion? Why use hand written routines?
| zhte415 wrote:
| Now absolutely no one doesn't have an excuse not to add AI to
| their resume. Right after MS Word, MS Powerpoint and MS Excel.
| [deleted]
| Guest42 wrote:
| Perhaps Microsoft can add it to their certs list and start
| competing with the tier 1 grad schools.
|
| I remember a newly hired ex-consultant have a slide in her deck
| about using ML across sparse/inaccurate company data and how
| this would turn "data into information." I think eventually
| they realized that it takes more than PowerPoints and repeating
| that phrase.
| savant_penguin wrote:
| Finally machine learning with Excel
|
| I'd love to see some integration with cloud services for model
| deploy
|
| The workflow email>Excel>CodePipeline>AWS deploy looks really
| funny and possible
| axpy906 wrote:
| I would be curious what deployment would look like here...
| Would it be uploading the model back to the cloud to run
| inference for other users - like a marketplace?
| bfung wrote:
| You think that's funny, but from experience, I'd tell you this
| happens more often than you think.
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| A company I was with, that was a startup and then IPO'd, our
| pipeline involved an open office spreadsheet "deployed" (copy)
| onto the server, where then the Java webapp (war+tomcat) would
| read the inputs to calculate for millions of people, user
| classifier and what kind of robocall they should get in case of
| a utility event to prevent brownouts.
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