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My summary and notes for "Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?" by Ziawasch Abedjan, Xu Chu, Dong Deng, Raul Castro Fernandez, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mourad…
Joel test for Data Science - the inspiration and adjustment to data science done in Domino, both were interesting reads for me.…
- 5 Python NLP pacakges·2 min
NLP is a broad term which contains many types of question and challenges such as - language detection, Part-of-Speech tagging, relation extraction, named entity recognition, OCR,…
I got a diversity scholarship from Num Focus to attend the PyData Berlin event. Num Focus is an NGO which supports open source data science projects among them - Jupyter,…
Similar Wikipedia Pages - This post present Wikipedia similar pages chrome extension. Phrasing this in other words it is a recommendation system for Wikipedia pages. They are not…
Spoiler detector - Get your annotated data set for free! Nice way to get (though not perfect) an annotated data set and create some social good. Would be interesting to expand it…
My talk from Swiss Python Summit is online - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9AU_qETVd8
I usually don't post link to posts in Hebrew because the audience is limited. This time I decided to make Hebrew Special. I appreciate people writing about technology in Hebrew…
In memory of Udy Brill pypi analysis - this posts starts with some technical issues, e.g. how to scrape pacakge dependencies from pypi packages and goes on to showing a graph of…
- Spark, EMR, Lambda, AWS·1 min
I know the title of this post looks like a collection of buzz words but there is code behind it. AWS Lambda function is a service which allow you to create an action (in this…
Caffe On Spark - if it pretty clear that on of the next steps for Spark MLLib is to add deep learning. There are several deep learning frameworks out there and I guess few (if not…
Almost 5 month ago AWS exposed a new service - “Elasticsearch service”. So we can now have a managed elasticsearch cluster and we can have Kibana on it without the hassle of…
Ads @ stackoverflow - Steve from Stackoverflow ad managment team explains their view about ads on the site. This is a very user centric approach along with strong branding and…
Since I didn't know anything about Apache Cassandra (beside being a distributed database) I could probably replace the 8 in the title to any number.. Here is a summary of few…
- Swiss Python Summit 2016·3 min
I participated in Swiss Python Summit today , where I gave a talk about "Python's guide to the Galaxy". Code and slides are available in my GitHub . All the talk were recorded and…
Top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments - I must say this analysis surprises me. First because of the low numbers - most common book was…
Everything.me open source their inheritance - Everything.me was an Israeli startup closed few weeks ago. They now open source major parts of their code and tools including their…
I was on a visit in Israel and went to " Surviving Black Friday & Turning Behavioural Signals Into User Profiles " meetup. It is a very long name which actually implying on 2…
Systemml - distributed and declarative machine learning platform. Looks like a promising project which now joined Apache Software foundation and was initially developed by IBM. I…
Improving My CLI's Autocomplete with Markov Chains - Markov chains are the basis for many auto-complete algorithms we know and use on daily basis, e.g keyboards on mobile devices.…
K-nearest-neighbors is a very well known classification algorithm. It is based on the phrase - "show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are". Apache Spark MLLib…
Counting things in Python - This post spotlights very nicely and simple how Python and Pythonic writing changed over the years. One of the interesting things in this post is the…
Whatsapp CLI - control you server using Whatsapp. The next step for me is to connect my home (heating, lights, doors) and control it via Whatsapp. To be honest I assume that some…
- AWS loft Berlin·2 min
This week Amazon opened a loft in Berlin which is suppose to be open for 4 weeks. The loft is currently on pilot and there are several other lofts around the world. I think it is…
Restaurants recommendations - I read quite a lot about recommendation systems lately and I love this post because it talks about a restaurant domain while many of the posts…