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JavaOne
Folks,
Perhaps this is old news for you, but JavaOne San Francisco registration is live. Various saving options are available leading up to the conference, and to take advantage of the current US$600 in savings registration needs to be completed by May 31st, 2015 (11:59pm PT).
I encourage you to read through the registration options by visiting the JavaOne registration site:…
Added by Michael Levin on April 24, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments
An Inside Look at the Components of a Recommendation Engine
Recommendation engines help narrow your choices to those that best meet your particular needs. In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at how all the different components of a recommendation engine work together. We’re going to use collaborative filtering on movie ratings data to recommend movies. The key components are a collaborative filtering algorithm in Apache Mahout to build and train a machine learning model,…
ContinueAdded by Carol McDonald on April 13, 2015 at 9:14am — 1 Comment
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