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 »
Yearly Archives: 2014
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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 »
In order to solve problems and get to the best insight, sometimes a good method is to turn the case upside-down, flip things around, and get the information straight again. After over 25 hours of gameplay within the past week or two, I finally finished the game “Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney”. I’m More »
One of the main reasons why I started this blog a few days ago instead of a few months ago is because I spent the majority of my spare time taking 2 Coursera courses from June to September: Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning. For anyone who is curious, Coursera is a company that 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 »
千里之行, 始於足下 (Qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐ yú zúxià) Hey everyone! For my first ever blog post, I thought I’d share a quote that I learned from my professor in Chinese 3. It’s a pretty cheesy quote that means even the hardest, longest, and most difficult ventures begin somewhere, but it’s why I figured I’d start More »