Last Thursday I attended a Cloudera Breakfast Briefing where Sean Owen was speaking about Spark and the examples were related to building decision trees and random forests. It was a good session in general. Sean started… Read More »Cloudera Breakfast Briefing and Tofu Scientists
Working with data and approaching data-based competitions
In a lot of machine learning and data science applications, it is not unusual to use matrices to represent data. It is indeed a very convenient way to keep the information but also to do… Read More »You have big data? MIT researchers can help shrinking it!
I am an avid user of Markdown via Mou and R Markdown (with RStudio). The facility that the iPython Notebook offers in combining code and text to be rendered in an interactive webpage is the… Read More »Markup for Fast Data Science Publication – Reblog
The Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform report by Gartner is close to the heart of many people interested in the analytics market and it reflect the changes and new tools that people are and will… Read More »Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics Platforms is out
DSI Talk with Dr Gautam Shroff 19/02/2015 – NOTICE: These are only notes and they may not make much sense out of context… Current business themes – Digital imagination – Simplification – Governance –… Read More »Attending the Data Science Institute seminar at Imperial College
This is a reblog of an article by Bill Gerrard in The Guardian (click on the link to go to the original). I find it very interesting that Rugby is moving forward in this direction. What… Read More »Rugby Union analytics – five ways data is changing the sport – Reblog
I came across this blog post by Kevin Markham where he describes his experiences and thoughts about having taught the 11-week data science course with General Assembly. He has managed to capture some of my… Read More »Lessons learned from teaching an 11-week data science course
This post is a reblog of a post by Chenh Han Lee, the original can be seen at Udacity. How to Choose Between Learning Python or R First by Cheng Han Lee January 12, 2015… Read More »How to choose between learning Python or R first – Reblog
