This Friday, I will give in Montréal a crash course entitled Econometric Modeling in Finance and Insurance with the R Language....
0 replies - 1780 views - 02/14/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Where Did The Term "Big Data" Come From The NYTimes did some deep investigating into the etymological origins of the biggest buzzword in IT right now.A...
0 replies - 2845 views - 02/14/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
It is common to fit a model using training data, and then to evaluate its performance on a test data set. When the data are time series,...
0 replies - 458 views - 02/14/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles
These days there are lot of hype around jargons like Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig and BigData. I was itching to learn what are these terms...
0 replies - 690 views - 02/14/13 by Krishna Prasad in Articles
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some feature extraction work that I’d done on the Kaggle Digit Recognizer data set and having...
0 replies - 981 views - 02/13/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
I have adapted the WordCount tutorial to Maven based development as this probably the most popular way to develop in companies. I am not going to...
0 replies - 1362 views - 02/13/13 by Armel Nene in Articles
Over at 37Signal’s Signal v. Noise, Noah Lorang recently cautioned against the recent infatuation with “creative” visualization techniques. He...
0 replies - 788 views - 02/13/13 by Sadayuki Furuhashi in Articles
I am currently building a Machine Learning system. In this blog I want to captures the elements of a machine learning system.My definition...
0 replies - 794 views - 02/13/13 by Krishna Prasad in Articles
This post is about how-to launch a CDH4 MRv1 or CDH4 Yarn cluster on EC2 instances. It's said that you can launch a cluster with the help of Whirr and in a...
0 replies - 1516 views - 02/12/13 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles
Yesterday, I was uploading some old posts to complete the migration (I get back to my old posts, one by one, to check links of pictures, reformating R codes,...
0 replies - 828 views - 02/12/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
This afternoon Hadley Wickham gave a great talk on data analysis. Here’s a paraphrase of something profound he said.Visualization can surprise you,...
0 replies - 2025 views - 02/11/13 by John Cook in Articles
A nice post on statistics and codes, that I read this week“Statisticians and computer scientists – if there is no code, there is no...
0 replies - 1851 views - 02/11/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
For me LZOP is the ubiquitous compression codec with working with large text files in HDFS due to its MapReduce data locality advantages. As a result when I...
0 replies - 1368 views - 02/11/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles
This Google Developers tutorial delves into querying, indexing, and transactions with App Engine's Datastore service, driven by Google Bigtable:
In this...
0 replies - 1632 views - 02/11/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
In an introductory post on R APIs to C code, Calling C Code ‘Hello World!’, we explored the .C() function with some ‘Hello World!’ baby...
0 replies - 1306 views - 02/10/13 by Jonathan Callahan in Articles
