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- #dmconf15·4 min
I got a free ticket to distributed matters conference winning the challenge of the python big data analytics meetup group. The line up was impressive (including Kyle Kingsbury…
Density based clustering - the clearest and most practical guide I read about density based clustering. http://blog.dominodatalab.com/topology-and-density-based-clustering/ Word…
Time map visualization of discrete event - Very good idea for visualization of discrete events when the order of events is not important but rather the general pattern. Good to…
- Apache Flink workshop·2 min
On Wednesday I took part in " Stream Processing with Apache Flink ". The workshop was hosted by Carmeq and was super generous. Apache Flink is a distributed streaming dataflow…
Best programming language ever!!!!!1 - I really agree with this guy approach and the way he presents it. No better tool but better choices.…
I usually don't find those ranking very interesting but Redmonk ranking which compares between programming languages' popularity on GitHub (by projects) and popularity on Stack…
The question I started with, as the title states, was quite simple - "is python random really random"? Let's divide the question to two - python random and really random. Python…
Beautiful Lies - in the good case charts can be unclear due to too much data, no distinct colors, missing labels etc. in a worse case it can be miss leading. Few tips and example…
Hello Dask - Dask is a few month old addition to the PyData toolbox. It aims to enable light-weighted parallel computation. The idea behind it is that it produces a graph, which…
rrrepo - at first glance it looked me like a checklist site and then I understood it is a repository of links. I tried to register, explore and create a site and I think they have…
Nba shots charts - Well, I'm in love :) I like visualizations, I like sports and this post gives both the motivation and the how -…
Yesterday I attended a " Music Information Retrieval from a Multicultural Perspective " meetup in SoundCloud offices. It was one of the most thought provoking meetups I have…
I have just read " Data Driven - creating a data culture " by Hilary Mason and DJ Patil. While computer science is considered a new science or a new discipline data science is…
Python neural network in 11 lines - the name is a bit misleading but nice DIY initiative. http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/ Python or R - The bottom line…
Diversity in tech? This post describe a black woman’s experience in the Stanford Computer Science Major. As part of TOA events I went to Zalando's diversity in tech panel last…
- Database debate·1 min
As part of the Berlin Tech Open Air events I want to the " Database debate " in DC Media networks. The two sides of the debate were Simon Willnauer, lead engineer of ElasticSearch…
Code management tools by AWS - in the last RE:INVENT event (October 2014) Amazon said that this year they are going to focus on new tools for code management and deployment. Now…
Three Useful Python Libraries for Startups - tl;dr this post suggest Whitenoise, Phonenumbers and Pdfki as 3 important packages for startups and requests and Python-dateutil as…
Spark Summit 2015 Highlights in Tweets - Spark summit was held in San Francisco this week (15-17 June). Euro-Spark summit will be held on 27-29 October call for papers is open.…
Interviewing as an art - Finding the smart, talented people with the right vibe for your company is always hard. Being on the other side is also hard. Not only in the sense of…
Pitfalls when mining Wikipedia - this research was done on a bit old data (2013) but it show quite easy way to clean wikipedia dumps. Although they suggest a way to repeat the…
Vis.js demo - (Yet another) Javascript visualization library. I love the relative graph approach, I find it easier for Python developers that d3.js (which I also like) -…
Making an exception but I really came across some interesting things - A\A Testing - well known idea in machine learning (train, cross-validation, test) and in other research best…
spaCy - yet another python library for text processing? maybe, haven't tried it but seems like another tool taking part in this growing world. I'm looking for a package that will…
Is Wikipedia a microcsmos of our world? News of 2014 as they are reflected in Wikipedia. http://www.brianckeegan.com/2014/12/the-news-on-wikipedia-in-2014/ Json as python modules…