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Jessica Pevner, Staff Reporter at Yale Daily News reports, In recent years, machine learning has risen in popularity
as an exciting frontier in data science.
This type of statistical
technique can be leveraged to gain insight in all sorts of applications,
from suggesting the perfect song on Spotify to predicting the weather.
The newest application? Classifying plankton fossils.
Recently, a Yale-led team created a first-of-its-kind machine learning
model that can identify the species of almost 7,000 plankton fossil
images.
The model works extremely well — even better than human experts...
Researchers also emphasized their desire for their results to be used to
train future experts in the field. Hsiang added that the Endless Forams
database is an important resource that can be used to train students to
identify species.
Source: Yale Daily News
