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Analytic Startups: Skytree
Skytree started out as an academic machine learning project developed at Georgia Tech’s Fastlab. Leadership shopped the software to a number of software vendors prior to 2011 and, finding no buyers,...
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Machine Learning in Hadoop: Part One
Much has changed since I last blogged on this subject a year ago (here and here). This is the first of a three-part blog covering the current state of play for machine learning in Hadoop. I use the...
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Analytic User Personas
Analytic users are not all the same; in most organizations, there are a number of different user “personalities”, or personas, with distinct needs. If you develop an analytics architecture for your...
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Distributed Analytics: A Primer
Can we leverage distributed computing for machine learning and predictive analytics? The question keeps surfacing in different contexts, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to write an overview of the...
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Forrester “Wave” for Predictive Analytics
Last week, Forrester published its 2015 “Wave” report for Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions. You can pay $2,495 and buy it directly from Forrester (here), or you can get the same report for free...
View ArticleHow Important is Model Accuracy?
Go to a trade show for predictive analytics and listen to the presentations; most will focus on building more accurate predictive models. Presenters will differ on how this should be done: some will...
View ArticleBook Review: Antifragile
There is a (possibly apocryphal) story about space scientist James Van Allen. A reporter asked why the public should care about Van Allen belts, which are layers of particles held in place by Earth’s...
View ArticleNotes from Strata 2013
Last week I attended the O’Reilly Strata 2013 Conference. Here are some notes on presentations pertinent to analytics, in four categories: Vendors Users Technical Thought Provokers Vendor...
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