Guido Tapia

Guido Tapia

Director of Software Development and Machine Learning Services at PicNet

Guido manages the Software Development and Machine Learning teams at PicNet. They specialise in delivering complex systems that are usually beyond the capabilities of regular outsourcing companies. Such systems as; highly distributed systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, business critical applications, etc.

Guido Tapia

December 5, 2014

From a Business Analyst to a Big Analyst

The world of traditional business analysis is well-known. Interesting challenges and state of the art methodologies guide the work of a business analyst (BA) - from the discovery and gathering of requirements through to the design of the business req ...

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Guido Tapia

November 13, 2014

The Value of Data - A short guide to learn how to maximise the value of your data.

This is an excerpt from the white paper available here. Over the last few years the data industry has been shaken to its core. We have new names, roles, technologies, products coming out on a daily basis. The term "Big Data" has been overused so much ...

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Guido Tapia

November 13, 2014

Vowpal Wabbit for Windows and Binary for Win x64

Getting VW working on windows is a real pain. Even though I had the whole environment set up as described on the readme it still took me a good couple of hours to build. So with absolutely no guarantee or support options here is my built version of v ...

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Guido Tapia

November 5, 2014

Property Market Predictions - PicNet Predictive Analytics

This post explores options for the application Machine Learning techniques to the Australian residential property market with the objective of predicting insights that would be useful for buyers, sellers and the industry. With access to good data it ...

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Guido Tapia

November 5, 2014

The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists

Kaggle is an interesting company. It provides companies a way to access Data Scientists in a completion like format and a very low cost. The value proposition of Kaggle for companies is very clear; this article will focus on the flipside of this equa ...

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Guido Tapia

September 9, 2014

Fluent python interface for Machine Learning

I often say that Machine Learning is like programming in the 60s, you prepare your program, double check everything, hand in your punch cards to the IBM operator, go home and wait. And just like back then, if you had a bug in your code it would mean ...

#machine-learning#pandas#predictive-analytics#python#scikit-learn

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