Awesome Machine Learning H2O – Massive Collection of Resources

Below is a curated list of all the awesome projects, applications, research, tutorials, courses and books that use H2O, an open source, distributed machine learning platform. H2O offers parallelized implementations of many supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms such as Generalized Linear Models, Gradient Boosting Machines (including XGBoost), Random Forests, Deep Neural Networks (Deep Learning), Stacked Ensembles, Naive Bayes, Cox Proportional Hazards, K-means, PCA, Word2Vec, as well as a fully automatic machine learning algorithm (AutoML).

H2O.ai produces many tutorials, blog posts, presentations and videos about H2O, but the list below is comprised of awesome content produced by the greater H2O user community.

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Contents

• Blog Posts & Tutorials
• Books
• Research Papers
• Benchmarks
• Presentations
• Courses
• Utilities (built using H2O)

Blog Posts & Tutorials

• Using H2O AutoML to simplify training process (and also predict wine quality) Aug 4, 2020
• Visualizing ML Models with LIME
• Parallel Grid Search in H2O Jan 17, 2020
• Importing, Inspecting and Scoring with MOJO models inside H2O Dec 10, 2019
• Artificial Intelligence Made Easy with H2O.ai: A Comprehensive Guide to Modeling with H2O.ai and AutoML in Python June 12, 2019
• Anomaly Detection With Isolation Forests Using H2O Dec 03, 2018
• Predicting residential property prices in Bratislava using recipes – H2O Machine learning Nov 25, 2018
• Inspecting Decision Trees in H2O Nov 07, 2018
• Gentle Introduction to AutoML from H2O.ai Sep 13, 2018
• Machine Learning With H2O — Hands-On Guide for Data Scientists Jun 27, 2018
• Using machine learning with LIME to understand employee churn June 25, 2018
• Analytics at Scale: h2o, Apache Spark and R on AWS EMR June 21, 2018
• Automated and unmysterious machine learning in cancer detection Nov 7, 2017
• Time series machine learning with h2o+timetk Oct 28, 2017
• Sales Analytics: How to use machine learning to predict and optimize product backorders Oct 16, 2017
• HR Analytics: Using machine learning to predict employee turnover Sep 18, 2017
• Autoencoders and anomaly detection with machine learning in fraud analytics May 1, 2017
• Building deep neural nets with h2o and rsparkling that predict arrhythmia of the heart Feb 27, 2017
• Predicting food preferences with sparklyr (machine learning) Feb 19, 2017
• Moving largish data from R to H2O – spam detection with Enron emails Feb 18, 2016
• Deep learning & parameter tuning with mxnet, h2o package in R Jan 30, 2017
• Are categorical variables getting lost in your random forests? Oct 28, 2016

Books

• Hands on Time Series with R Rami Krispin. (2019)
• Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x Alex Tellez, Max Pumperla, Michal Malohlava. (2017)
• Machine Learning Using R Karthik Ramasubramanian, Abhishek Singh. (2016)
• Practical Machine Learning with H2O: Powerful, Scalable Techniques for Deep Learning and AI Darren Cook. (2016)
• Disruptive Analytics Thomas Dinsmore. (2016)
• Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie. (2016)
• R Deep Learning Essentials Joshua F. Wiley. (2016)
• Spark in Action Petar Zečević, Marko Bonaći. (2016)
• Handbook of Big Data Peter Bühlmann, Petros Drineas, Michael Kane, Mark J. van der Laan (2015)

Research Papers

• Predicting Risk of Delays in Postal Deliveries with Neural Networks and Gradient Boosting Machines Matilda Söderholm. (2020)
• Stock Market Analysis using Stacked Ensemble Learning Method Malkar Takle. (2020)
• H2O AutoML: Scalable Automatic Machine Learning. Erin LeDell, Sebastien Poirier. (2020)
• Single-cell mass cytometry on peripheral blood identifies immune cell subsets associated with primary biliary cholangitis Jin Sung Jang, Brian D. Juran, Kevin Y. Cunningham, Vinod K. Gupta, Young Min Son, Ju Dong Yang, Ahmad H. Ali, Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga, Jaeyun Sung & Konstantinos N. Lazaridis. (2020)
• Prediction of the functional impact of missense variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with BRCA-ML Steven N. Hart, Eric C. Polley, Hermella Shimelis, Siddhartha Yadav, Fergus J. Couch. (2020)
• Innovative deep learning artificial intelligence applications for predicting relationships between individual tree height and diameter at breast height İlker Ercanlı. (2020)
• An Open Source AutoML Benchmark Peter Gijsbers, Erin LeDell, Sebastien Poirier, Janek Thomas, Berndt Bischl, Joaquin Vanschoren. (2019)
• Machine Learning in Python: Main developments and technology trends in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence Sebastian Raschka, Joshua Patterson, Corey Nolet. (2019)
• Human actions recognition in video scenes from multiple camera viewpoints Fernando Itano, Ricardo Pires, Miguel Angelo de Abreu de Sousa, Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandeza. (2019)
• Extending MLP ANN hyper-parameters Optimization by using Genetic Algorithm Fernando Itano, Miguel Angelo de Abreu de Sousa, Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandez. (2018)
• askMUSIC: Leveraging a Clinical Registry to Develop a New Machine Learning Model to Inform Patients of Prostate Cancer Treatments Chosen by Similar Men Gregory B. Auffenberg, Khurshid R. Ghani, Shreyas Ramani, Etiowo Usoro, Brian Denton, Craig Rogers, Benjamin Stockton, David C. Miller, Karandeep Singh. (2018)
• Machine Learning Methods to Perform Pricing Optimization. A Comparison with Standard GLMs Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato, Christophe Dutang, and Leonardo Petrini. (2018)
• Comparative Performance Analysis of Neural Networks Architectures on H2O Platform for Various Activation Functions Yuriy Kochura, Sergii Stirenko, Yuri Gordienko. (2017)
• Algorithmic trading using deep neural networks on high frequency data Andrés Arévalo, Jaime Niño, German Hernandez, Javier Sandoval, Diego León, Arbey Aragón. (2017)
• Generic online animal activity recognition on collar tags Jacob W. Kamminga, Helena C. Bisby, Duc V. Le, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havinga. (2017)
• Soil nutrient maps of Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment of soil nutrient content at 250 m spatial resolution using machine learning Tomislav Hengl, Johan G. B. Leenaars, Keith D. Shepherd, Markus G. Walsh, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Tekalign Mamo, Helina Tilahun, Ezra Berkhout, Matthew Cooper, Eric Fegraus, Ichsani Wheeler, Nketia A. Kwabena. (2017)
• Robust and flexible estimation of data-dependent stochastic mediation effects: a proposed method and example in a randomized trial setting Kara E. Rudolph, Oleg Sofrygin, Wenjing Zheng, and Mark J. van der Laan. (2017)
• Automated versus do-it-yourself methods for causal inference: Lessons learned from a data analysis competition Vincent Dorie, Jennifer Hill, Uri Shalit, Marc Scott, Dan Cervone. (2017)
• Using deep learning to predict the mortality of leukemia patients Reena Shaw Muthalaly. (2017)
• Use of a machine learning framework to predict substance use disorder treatment success Laura Acion, Diana Kelmansky, Mark van der Laan, Ethan Sahker, DeShauna Jones, Stephan Arnd. (2017)
• Ultra-wideband antenna-induced error prediction using deep learning on channel response data Janis Tiemann, Johannes Pillmann, Christian Wietfeld. (2017)
• Inferring passenger types from commuter eigentravel matrices Erika Fille T. Legara, Christopher P. Monterola. (2017)
• Deep neural networks, gradient-boosted trees, random forests: Statistical arbitrage on the S&P 500 Christopher Krauss, Xuan Anh Doa, Nicolas Huckb. (2016)
• Identifying IT purchases anomalies in the Brazilian government procurement system using deep learning Silvio L. Domingos, Rommel N. Carvalho, Ricardo S. Carvalho, Guilherme N. Ramos. (2016)
• Predicting recovery of credit operations on a Brazilian bank Rogério G. Lopes, Rommel N. Carvalho, Marcelo Ladeira, Ricardo S. Carvalho. (2016)
• Deep learning anomaly detection as support fraud investigation in Brazilian exports and anti-money laundering Ebberth L. Paula, Marcelo Ladeira, Rommel N. Carvalho, Thiago Marzagão. (2016)
• Deep learning and association rule mining for predicting drug response in cancer Konstantinos N. Vougas, Thomas Jackson, Alexander Polyzos, Michael Liontos, Elizabeth O. Johnson, Vassilis Georgoulias, Paul Townsend, Jiri Bartek, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis. (2016)
• The value of points of interest information in predicting cost-effective charging infrastructure locations Stéphanie Florence Visser. (2016)
• Adaptive modelling of spatial diversification of soil classification units. Journal of Water and Land Development Krzysztof Urbański, Stanisław Gruszczyńsk. (2016)
• Scalable ensemble learning and computationally efficient variance estimation Erin LeDell. (2015)
• Superchords: decoding EEG signals in the millisecond range Rogerio Normand, Hugo Alexandre Ferreira. (2015)
• Understanding random forests: from theory to practice Gilles Louppe. (2014)

Benchmarks

• Are categorical variables getting lost in your random forests? – Benchmark of categorical encoding schemes and the effect on tree based models (Scikit-learn vs H2O). Oct 28, 2016
• Deep learning in R – Benchmark of open source deep learning packages in R. Mar 7, 2016
• Szilard’s machine learning benchmark – Benchmarks of Random Forest, GBM, Deep Learning and GLM implementations in common open source ML frameworks. Jul 3, 2015

Presentations

• Pipelines for model deployment Apr 25, 2017
• Machine learning with H2O.ai Jan 23, 2017

Courses

• University of San Francisco (USF) Distributed Data System Class (MSDS 697) – Master of Science in Data Science Program.
• University of Oslo: Introduction to Automatic and Scalable Machine Learning with H2O and R – Research Bazaar 2019
• UCLA: Tools in Data Science (STATS 418) – Masters of Applied Statistics Program.
• GWU: Data Mining (Decision Sciences 6279) – Masters of Science in Business Analytics.
• University of Cape Town: Analytics Module – Postgraduate Honors Program in Statistical Sciences.
• Coursera: How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers – Advanced Machine Learning Specialization.

Utilities

• Spin up PySpark and PySparkling on AWS
• h2oparsnip R package: set of wrappers to bind h2o algorthms with the ‘parsnip’ package