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 in understanding how to do …
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 using Apache Spark to be …
Spark and XGBoost using Scala language Recently XGBoost project released a package on github where it is included interface to scala, java and spark (more info at this link). I would like to run xgboost …
Using PySpark for RedHat Kaggle competition Redhat Kaggle competition is not so prohibitive from a computational point of view or data management. The use of Pandas and xgboost, R allows you to get good scores. …
First approaches to Apache Spark and PySpark. By participating in the recent competition Kaggle Bosch production line performance, I decided to try using Apache Spark and in particular PySpark. When you need to analyze really …
Our team – Paul Perry, Elena Cuoco* and Zygmunt Zając – did not discover the leak. We didn’t attain a winning score, but on the other hand, the features we used and the analysis …
