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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 of spark environment and invest time…

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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, I decided to approach this competition…

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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 (more info at this link). I…

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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 of Pandas and xgboost, R allows…

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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 Spark and in particular PySpark. When…

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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 on the other hand, the features…