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Category: kaggle

December 22, 2016 · Data Science

Alternating Least Squares (ALS) Spark ML

Alternating Least Squares (ALS) for Santander Kaggle competition The Kaggle Santander competition just concluded. I decided for this competition to continue my learning process…

November 13, 2016 · Data Science

Kaggle Bosch competition using Apache Spark

Apache Spark for Kaggle competitions I competed in Kaggle Bosch competition to predict the failures during the production lines.  As described in another post,…

scala-xgboost-spark
October 10, 2016 · Code

Spark and XGBoost using Scala

Spark and XGBoost using Scala language Recently XGBoost project released a package on github where it is included interface to scala, java and spark…

September 1, 2016 · Data Science

PySpark for RedHat Kaggle competition

Using PySpark for RedHat Kaggle competition Redhat Kaggle competition is not so prohibitive from a computational point of view or data management. The use…

August 28, 2016 · Data Science

PySpark first approaches. Tips and tricks

First approaches to Apache Spark and PySpark. By participating in the recent competition Kaggle Bosch production line performance, I decided to try using Apache…

July 6, 2016 · Data Science

Basic Insight by Zygmunt Zajac

  Our team – Paul Perry, Elena Cuoco* and Zygmunt Zając – did not discover the leak. We didn’t attain a winning score, but…