Large Scale CTR Prediction – Lessons Learned
PyData happened in San Francisco two weeks ago and I’m happy to say that I was fortunate enough to be…
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Logistic Regression – Geometric Intuition
Everybody who has taken a machine learning course probably knows the geometric intuition behind a support vector machine (SVM, great book): A SVM is a…
Thoughts on Machine Learning – Dealing with Skewed Classes
A challenge which machine learning practitioners often face, is how to deal with skewed classes in classification problems. Such a…
Entrepreneurship: Silicon Valley vs. Munich – Part 1
Half a year ago, I was working in the heart of Silicon Valley and attended many meetups and networking parties…
Nutch – Plugin Tutorial
In one of my previous posts about Nutch, I already mentioned plugins. The plugin system is central to how Nutch…
Thoughts on Machine Learning – the statistical software R
This is going to be an ongoing article series about various aspects of Machine Learning. In the first post of…
Why everybody wants the Nike+ FuelBand
As you might already have noticed by now, one of my big interests is IT, especially new developments and trends…
Nutch – How It Works
After the installation of Nutch as described in my previous post, you can either follow this tutorial without the need of thinking, or…
Nutch – Installation
Nutch is a flexible and powerful open source tool for web crawling, developed by the Apache Software Foundation and its…
Stephen Colbert on Target and Predictive Analytics
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