Cloudera is rebuilding machine learning for Hadoop with Oryx
Cloudera is working on an open source project called Oryx that aims bring machine learning to Hadoop in a way that previous attempts such as Apache Mahout could not. Read more »
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Cloudera is working on an open source project called Oryx that aims bring machine learning to Hadoop in a way that previous attempts such as Apache Mahout could not. Read more »
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In order to recommend new events for its members, online event-management company Eventbrite must build what it calls “implicit social graphs.” It’s just one of many approaches to figuring out what… Read more »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the top two teams in the Netflix Prize competition united and put their predictive analytics skills to work together, you’ll soon find out… Read more »