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Category: Data Science

  • Spark Summit East panel

    Here’s a video of our well-received panel from a few weeks ago, featuring Abhishek Mehta , Tresata – Founder & CEO George Mathew , Alteryx – President & COO Patrick Wendell , Databricks – Co-founder Martin…

    Spark Summit East panel

  • Building big data systems in academia and industry

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Mikio Braun on stream processing, academic research, and training. Mikio Braun is a machine learning researcher who also enjoys software…

  • A real-time processing revival

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Things are moving fast in the stream processing world. There’s renewed interest in stream processing and analytics. I write this based on some data points…

  • Scikit-Learn 0.16

    I’ll be hosting a webcast featuring two of the key contributors to what is arguably one of the most popular machine learning tools today – scikit-learn: News from Scikit-Learn 0.16 and Soon-To-Be Gems for the Next…

  • Apache Spark 1.3, the new Dataframe API, and Spark performance

    Over the course of a week, I’ll be hosting two good webcasts featuring Spark release manager Patrick Wendell and Spark committer Kay Ousterhout. Register now! Patrick Wendell: Spark 1.3 and Spark’s New Dataframe API (March 25th…

  • Let’s build open source tensor libraries for data science

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Tensor methods for machine learning are fast, accurate, and scalable, but we’ll need well-developed libraries. Data scientists frequently find themselves dealing with high-dimensional feature spaces.…

  • Turning Ph.D.s into industrial data scientists and data engineers

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: The ASI will offer a two-day intensive course, Practical Machine Learning, at Strata + Hadoop World in London in May. Back when I…

  • Topic Models: Past, Present, Future

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: David Blei, co-creator of one of the most popular tools in text mining and machine learning. I don’t remember when…

  • Time-turner: Strata San Jose 2015, day 1

    [Our friends at Dato created an interesting content-based, Strata session recommender. Check it out here.] There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions.…

  • Hardcore Data Science: 2015 California

    Ben Recht and I hosted another great edition of Hardcore Data Science yesterday. From the very first talk, the room was full, the audience was attentive, and the energy in the room was high. It remained…