Category: Data Science
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The science of moving dots: the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast
Rajiv Maheswaran talks about the tools and techniques required to analyze new kinds of sports data [This post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: you can subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast…
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Anomaly Detection with ElasticSearch
One of the technologies that I’m hearing more about is ElasticSearch. In particular the combination of ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana (the ELK stack) has proven to be a popular platform for real-time analytics on both structured…
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Time-turner: Strata NYC 2014, day 2
There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions. But imagine I had a time-turner necklace and could actually “attend” 2 (maybe 3) sessions…
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Time-turner: Strata NYC 2014, day 1
There are so many good talks happening at the same time that it’s impossible to not miss out on good sessions. But imagine I had a time-turner necklace and could actually “attend” 2 (maybe 3) sessions…
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Unboxing Apache Spark 1.1
Apache Spark version 1.1 shipped a few weeks ago. I’ve been enjoying enhancements to MLlib, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming. Next week I’ll be hosting a webcast with Spark’s release manager – and Databricks co-founder –…
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Announcing Spark Certification
I’m happy to announce the Databricks/O’Reilly Developer Certification for Apache Spark! For more details, please read my post on the O’Reilly Radar.
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Michael Jordan (“ask me anything”): The distinguished machine learning and Bayesian researcher from UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has an interesting perspective on machine learning and statistics. … while I…
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Apache Spark development community: Josh Rosen of Databricks recently built a tool for browsing pull requests. I like that it lets you scan each of the major components…
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Bits from the Data Store
Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Alibaba ♥ Spark: Next time someone asks you if Apache Spark scales, point them to this recent post by Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba. What particularly caught my eye…
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Real-world Active Learning
Beyond building training sets for machine-learning, crowdsourcing is being used to enhance the results of machine-learning models: in active learning, humans take care of uncertain cases, models handle the routine ones. Active Learning is one of…