Note that this guide is quite old (it was written when Hive was at version 0.10) and might not apply as-is to recent Hive releases. Use at your own risk :)
Dataiku DSS provides deep integration...
Kaggle Contest: Blue Book For Bulldozers
Perhaps you know Kaggle and its slogan “making data science a sport”?
Kaggle is a cool platform for predictive modeling competitions where the best data scientists face each other, all trying to...
Thomas at Strata - Part 2
The previous post on my trip to Strata describes my first day there. You may want to read it here.
The next two days were focused on keynotes and presentations, as well as exhibitors products...
Thomas at Strata - Part 1
I've been lucky enough to travel to Santa Clara, California, and attend the Strata Conf event. I was there for two days and have plenty of insight and feedback on all the sessions over the course...
Visualizing Your LinkedIn Graph Using Gephi - Part 1
Graph analysis becomes a key component of data science. A lot of things can be modeled as graphs, but social networks are really one of the most obvious examples.
In this post, I am going to show how...
Visualizing your LinkedIn Graph Using Gephi - Part 2
In the previous post, we learnt how to get data out of LinkedIn via its API. This task is quite technical but an entire component of every data science projects: accessing and manipulating data from...
Setting Up A Cool Data Science Platform Cheaply
Current technologies allow us to build a data science stack for very little, and it will perform as well or even better than stuff that used to cost a lot a few years ago.
A Simple Recommendation Engine Implemented in Different Languages
Ever wondered how you get recommended to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark after you gave a good rating to Star Wars on your favorite movie rental service ? (yes, back to the 80's...). That's the...
Visualizing French Income Tax Data
What was supposed to be a simple data visualization side project with some French open data (data.gouv.fr) and Tableau Public ended up in something quite complex.
