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Twitter analytics with Spark - I really enjoyed this post from several reasons. First because the need and the way that lead to the solution is clear and well explained. Second,…
- Common Crawl meetup·3 min
Yesterday I attended big data beers meetup . The meetup included 2 talks by Common Crawl employees - Lisa Green and Stephen Merity . Both talks was great and the connection…
Geeks pleasure - fulling math. Creating two images (and actually every type of document) with the same md5 hash.…
Today I was trying to run my first EMR, here are few lessons I learned during this day. I have previously run hadoop streaming mapreduce so I was familiar with the mapreduce state…
C3.JS - I have previously wrote a post about the importance of visualization in the skill set of data scientist. C3.js is a JavaScript chart library based on d3.js which seems at…
Gooey - Command line to application! Very cool. Works by mapping ArgumentParser to GUI objects. Very cool and make it easier to make instant tools to play around the office.…
You have a python dictionary, you want to get the value of specific key in the dictionary, so far so good, right? And then a KeyError - Traceback (most recent call last): File…
This is actually a summary of few talks which deals with "under the hood" topics, the talks partially overlap. Those topics include - memory allocation and management,…
Goooooooooaaaaaalllll - world cup is over but Python and soccer are forever :). This post tries to identify goals and interesting events on soccer games based on the volume on…
EuroPython talk by: Francisco Fernández Castaño https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/70/ The talk was classified as novice and so it was - very basic graph database…
EuroPython talk by: Heiko Strathmann, herrstrathmann.de https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/103/ Strathmann presented the Shogun toolbox . Shogun is a Machine…
- Learning Chess from Data·1 min
EuroPython talk I gave today. Joint work with N.M. Talk is here - https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/18/ Slides and code - https://github.com/nivm/learningchess
EuroPython talk by: Peter Hoffmann , @peterhoffmann https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/47/ A talk by Peter Hoffmann from Blue Yonder which is one of the sponsors of…
- Full Stack Python·1 min
EuroPython talk by: Matt Makai, @mattmakai https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/41/ I expected this talk to be full with buzzwords and it was... but in a good sense.…
A\B Testing - No need to say that A\B is a very hot buzz word in the industry. A\B tests were used long ago in psychology but today there are much more accessible and easy to set.…
- Awesome *·1 min
Are we going back? In the past week I have bumped into two github repositories such as awesome-python and awesome-sysadmin . Both repositories do a great job and compose and…
Celery best practices - python celery package is on my "todo list" once I have a relevant task. However, some of the thoughts and ideas which are talked about in this post are…
Yesterday I attended the "Andrew Ng and pyStruct" meetup. http://www.meetup.com/berlin-machine-learning/events/179264562/ I was lucky enough to get a place to the meetup due to…
My little helper - search engine for code examples and use cases. I haven't yet tried that "live" when I needed something, but I hope I will remember it next time.…
Data scientist are said to have better development knowledge than the average statistician and better statistic knowledge than the average developer. However, together with those…
Tell me your name and I'll tell you your age - playing with data and a conditioned distribution…
Is that a baby bump in your status? Janet Vertesi tried to keep her pregnancy a way from the social networks. Did she succeed? What was the price? (high)…
A while ago I was asked a question about Spatial database and figured out I didn't know anything about it. So, I use this platform to document my learning about this topic. What…
MailPin -Turn an email to a web page - For me it is a cool tool that I probably won't use but it is cool and that is also important thing those days. http://mailp.in/ 10 years to…
I have recently took "R programming" course in Coursera . This is the second course I take there. Before that I took "Machine Learning" course which was much heavier course with…