Finally, I made a recommendation engine using Spark! One of the things that I’ve wanted to do for a really long time is to apply some machine learning and more advanced analytics with my own datasets. For a while it wasn’t that feasible: R cannot handle very large datasets on its own, MATLAB and Octave More »
Big Data
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After about a month of waiting after the course ended, I finally got my statement of accomplishment for the Coursera course Introduction to Data Science. At first, I wasn’t going to take this course. I figured that the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng would preoccupy my time and summer enough and it would probably More »
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/big_data_whats_your_plan This article has been on my to read list for a couple of months (I found this around March-April), and although it’s longer than I initially hoped, it brings up a couple of good points. The article is about a simple concept: in order to use big data and advanced analytics, one must develop More »
http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/03/why-big-data-is-a-big-deal A few months ago while I was at home, I saw that my sister received another issue of the Harvard Magazine. At first I was going to just ignore it completely, but I noticed that the magazine was talking about big data on its front page. I had some time that day, so I More »