The Basics of Classifier Evaluation: Part 1
If it’s easy, it’s probably wrong.
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We Need a New Data Architecture: What Next?
It’s clear from the explosion of interest in newer platforms and technologies that the old tools and licensing costs don’t work to meet new business needs.
Dust in the Blockchain
Since the blockchain is both easily accessible and immutable, it is incredibly useful for other purposes. Issuing a tiny fraction of a Bitcoin (called dust) with embedded data allows anyone to easily store data permanently and publicly.
Zero to Kaggle in 30 Minutes
We’ll walk through the steps for competing in Kaggle’s “Digit Recognizer” contest using SQL-based machine learning tools to identify hand-written digits.
Use Cases for Apache Spark
The Apache Spark big data processing platform has been making waves in the data world, and for good reason.
CDO FAQ
The CDO is still a relatively new position and there isn’t yet a strong consensus about the exact job description, reporting structure, or qualification set.
5 Ways to Facilitate Failure
Failure is appealing as a stepping stone along the path to innovation, but it’s very scary in practice—especially when you can’t yet see where the path is leading. We’d like to suggest the following five guidelines as a place to start.
The Blockchain is Forever
Who knows what unimaginable technology will exist in the next 20 years based on blockchains?
The Venn Diagram of Data Strategy
When it comes to data strategy, many people read the “data” part and automatically dump the topic in the “technical” bucket.