Gradient Flow

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  • Network structure and dynamics in online social systems

    Understanding information cascades, viral content, and significant relationships. [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] I rarely work with social network data, but I’m familiar with the standard problems confronting data scientists…

  • The evolution of GraphLab

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: Carlos Guestrin will be part of the team teaching Large-scale Machine Learning Day at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose. Visit the…

  • Building and deploying large-scale machine learning pipelines

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] There are many algorithms with implementations that scale to large data sets (this list includes matrix factorization, SVM, logistic regression, LASSO, and many others). In…

  • A brief look at data science’s past and future

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Back in 2008, when we were working on what became one of the first papers on big data technologies, one of our first visits was…

  • Lessons from next-generation data wrangling tools

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] One of the trends we’re following is the rise of applications that combine big data, algorithms, and efficient user interfaces. As I noted in an…

  • Building Apache Kafka from scratch

    [A version of this post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast, Jay Kreps talks about data integration, event data, and the Internet of Things. At the…

  • Decoding bitcoin and the blockchain

    [A version of this post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] When the creators of bitcoin solved the “double spend” problem in a decentralized manner, they introduced techniques that have implications far beyond digital currency.…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Scaling up Data Frames

    New frameworks for interactive business analysis and advanced analytics fuel the rise in tabular data objects [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Long before the advent of “big data”, analysts were…