Re: Machine Learning Requirements Discussion: WAS [Introducing Maha Refai, Mifos Initiative volunteer, working on requirements for credit analytics]

2018-04-11 Thread Lalit Mohan S
Dear All, My 2 cents... For training set, we need to take the help of experts, banks, regulators and use available public datasets. Also, there are some research papers on Fraud detection and other models, we need to connect with some of the academic researchers as well. I had some recent conve

Re: Machine Learning Requirements Discussion: WAS [Introducing Maha Refai, Mifos Initiative volunteer, working on requirements for credit analytics]

2018-04-10 Thread Maha El-Refai
Hello Ed/James, Sorry for the late reply, I'm traveling most of the time in different time zones. I agree with James, I had a couple of calls to collect ideas of how can machine learning help us and my only concern was our access to the data and how structured and classified is the data. If there

Re: Machine Learning Requirements Discussion: WAS [Introducing Maha Refai, Mifos Initiative volunteer, working on requirements for credit analytics]

2018-04-04 Thread James Dailey
Hi Maha - I've been spending some time thinking about this for some business areas adjacent to financial inclusion. In financial inclusion, and financial services in general, there are of course, many areas where some ML or even basic analysis would do a wonderful job. For Mifos I believe a key

Machine Learning Requirements Discussion: WAS [Introducing Maha Refai, Mifos Initiative volunteer, working on requirements for credit analytics]

2018-04-04 Thread Ed Cable
Maha, I wanted to resurrect this thread and invigorate some discussion as we have a GSOC prospect, Lalit, considering a project focused around machine learning. I've added him to this thread and going to also add the team at BowPI so they can contribute to the discussion around what they've done o