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    TensorFlow

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ATensorFlow is an open-source machine learning software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It was originally developed by Google.N/A

    The Weather Company

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    N/AThe Weather Company provides weather data and forecasts globally with personalized and actionable insights to millions of consumers and thousands of businesses. The product provides weather intelligence and insight on any device. Use cases, or industries served, include Military and Defense, Aviation, Advertising, Media, and some Consumer use cases. Example data products include: The Weatherverse Planner platform, which continuously monitors the forecast to help…N/A
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    TensorFlowThe Weather Company
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    TensorFlowThe Weather Company
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    TensorFlow is great for most deep learning purposes. This is especially true in two domains: 1. Computer vision: image classification, object detection and image generation via generative adversarial networks 2. Natural language processing: text classification and generation. The good community support often means that a lot of off-the-shelf models can be used to prove a concept or test an idea quickly. That, and Google's promotion of Colab means that ideas can be shared quite freely. Training, visualizing and debugging models is very easy in TensorFlow, compared to other platforms (especially the good old Caffe days). In terms of productionizing, it's a bit of a mixed bag. In our case, most of our feature building is performed via Apache Spark. This means having to convert Parquet (columnar optimized) files to a TensorFlow friendly format i.e., protobufs. The lack of good JVM bindings mean that our projects end up being a mix of Python and Scala. This makes it hard to reuse some of the tooling and support we wrote in Scala. This is where MXNet shines better (though its Scala API could do with more work).
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    The Weather Company
    Well suited:
    • Forecasting for severe weather events.
    • Generating overall seasonal trends in upcoming weather patterns.
    • Content is easy to read and understand.
    • Great for business decision-makers, c-level executives.
    Not well-suited:
    • Year ahead forecasts.
    • Data that can be trusted as finite days before a weather event. The data and forecasts can change often, so remaining up to date is key.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • A vast library of functions for all kinds of tasks - Text, Images, Tabular, Video etc.
    • Amazing community helps developers obtain knowledge faster and get unblocked in this active development space.
    • Integration of high-level libraries like Keras and Estimators make it really simple for a beginner to get started with neural network based models.
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    The Weather Company
    • Detailed forecasts.
    • Hyper-local forecasts.
    • Daily updated local and meaningful forecast for our business.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • RNNs are still a bit lacking, compared to Theano.
    • Cannot handle sequence inputs
    • Theano is perhaps a bit faster and eats up less memory than TensorFlow on a given GPU, perhaps due to element-wise ops. Tensorflow wins for multi-GPU and “compilation” time.
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    The Weather Company
    • Forecasts are not always accurate.
    • Winter weather forecasts are now often now-casted which can be challenging for proactive planning.
    • Would love to see more tips on how businesses can prepare for severe weather by the use of the Weather Company’s data.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    Support of multiple components and ease of development.
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    The Weather Company
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    Community support for TensorFlow is great. There's a huge community that truly loves the platform and there are many examples of development in TensorFlow. Often, when a new good technique is published, there will be a TensorFlow implementation not long after. This makes it quick to ally the latest techniques from academia straight to production-grade systems. Tooling around TensorFlow is also good. TensorBoard has been such a useful tool, I can't imagine how hard it would be to debug a deep neural network gone wrong without TensorBoard.
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    The Weather Company
    Support for the Weather Company has not been an issue. The predictive analytics processes that they use allow them to remain a strong force in the world of weather patterns and forecasts. Brand recognition allows them to continue to grow and develop in a world that is not as crowded as other predictive analytics areas.
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    Use of cloud for better execution power is recommended.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Keras is built on top of TensorFlow, but it is much simpler to use and more Python style friendly, so if you don't want to focus on too many details or control and not focus on some advanced features, Keras is one of the best options, but as far as if you want to dig into more, for sure TensorFlow is the right choice
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    The Weather Company
    Insightful meteorologists that both understands the science of weather and also understands our business needs.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Learning is s bit difficult takes lot of time.
    • Developing or implementing the whole neural network is time consuming with this, as you have to write everything.
    • Once you have learned this, it make your job very easy of getting the good result.
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    The Weather Company
    • Better confidence in the weather forecast.
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