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Devoxx Poland
The Devoxx Poland call for papers closed!
es 3/31/16. Why should you submit your abstract? Devoxx Poland occurs in beautiful Krakow. June 22-24 are the dates. That's the most desirable time to be in central Europe. It's a global conference so you'll meet people from all over the world.
There were over 2000 participants last year. The…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on March 30, 2016 at 7:30am — No Comments
BIG DATA ONLINE TRAINING for Student Developers!
Oracle Academy’s free program offers learning resources and technologies for individual students:
BIG DATA ONLINE TRAINING
The objective of trainings, developed by Dan McClary, the product manager of “Oracle Academy Big Data Science…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on November 13, 2015 at 6:05pm — No Comments
movie recommendations with Spark machine learning
Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning
This post discusses building a recommendation model from movie ratings using an iterative algorithm and parallel processing with Apache Spark MLlib.
https://dzone.com/links/parallel-and-iterative-processing-for-machine-lear.html
Added by Carol McDonald on August 4, 2015 at 11:15am — 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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