Data Science

Data Science Awesome Guides Behold the power of MCMC

Last time I wrote an article on MCMC and how they could be useful.

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Data Science Awesome Guides My Tryst With MCMC Algorithms

The things that I find hard to understand push me to my limits.

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Big Data Data Science Hadoop Mapreduce Streaming Tricks and Techniques

I have been using Hadoop a lot now a days and thought about writing some of the novel techniques that a user could use to get the most out of the Hadoop Ecosystem.

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Data Science Exploring Vowpal Wabbit with the Avazu Clickthrough Prediction Challenge

In online advertising, click-through rate (CTR) is a very important metric for evaluating ad performance.

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Data Science Data Science 101 : Playing with Scraping in Python

This is a simple illustration of using Pattern Module to scrape web data using Python.

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Data Science Dictvectorizer for One Hot Encoding of Categorical Data

THE PROBLEM: Recently I was working on the Criteo Advertising Competition on Kaggle.

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Data Science Learning pyspark – Installation – Part 1

This is part one of a learning series of pyspark, which is a python binding to the spark program written in Scala.

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