Un rientro per le feste di Natale nella mia Fasano diverso dal solito e con molte gradite sorprese. Il giornale Osservatorio mi ha designato il titolo di "Fasanese dell'anno" 2016.…
Alternating Least Squares (ALS) for Santander Kaggle competition The Kaggle Santander competition just concluded. I decided for this competition to continue my learning process of spark environment and invest time…
Install JVM xgboost package to interface to Apache Spark For a complete guide and documentation, please refer to the official xgoost documentation. Here, I'm just reporting a quick start to…
Apache Spark for Kaggle competitions I competed in Kaggle Bosch competition to predict the failures during the production lines. As described in another post, I decided to approach this competition…
Build and install Spark on a Linux platform Here a short guide to build, install and configure Apache Spark on a Linux platform. You can decide which Spark release install…
Setup of a scala project using IntelliJ IDEA I suppose you have already downloaded and installed the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA from this link, that you have your java,…