I’ve just published an article about how to use Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning platform . You can read it on the Learning Tree International blog. … [Read more...]
Microsoft to acquire Revolution Analytics
Microsoft have already shown R some love by supporting it in their Azure Machine Learning service. But, today they announced an acquisition that borders on infatuation---they are acquiring Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is a commercial provider of R software, support and services---with strength in the big data area. They are the developers of the open-source RHadoop packages that … [Read more...]
First decision analysis tool on Apple Watch? Not really, but…
Craig Dunn has already created a decision analysis tool on the Apple Watch---a device that's not even been launched! The ever-increasing pace of technological progress... OK, so it's a Magic Eight Ball fortune telling app. Not exactly the sort of thing you want to pitch to the CEO for the annual planning meeting. But, still, attempts at the real thing can't be far behind. The app was developed … [Read more...]
Spark Summit East 2015 agenda
The agenda for Spark Summit East 2015 (18-19 March) in New York City has just been published. I've listed the topics being covered and highlighted the ones that piqued my interest. Developer stream Beyond SQL: Spark SQL Abstractions For The Common Spark Job Streaming Big Data Analytics with Team Apache: Spark & Spark Streaming, Kafka and Cassandra Spark User Concurrency and Context/RDD … [Read more...]
How to build a predictive model using R
I've just published an article on how to build a model that predicts breast cancer diagnoses using R. You can read it on the Learning Tree International blog. It applies the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to one of the data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. … [Read more...]