Visual Diagnostics for More Informed Machine Learning: Part 1

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

— Plato The Allegory of the Cave

Python and high level libraries like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, NLTK, PyBrain, Theano, and MLPY have made machine learning accessible to a broad programming community that might never have found it otherwise. With the democratization of these tools, there is now a large, and growing, population of machine learning practitioners who are primarily self-taught. At t...