Software Engineering

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

April 1, 2015

PredictBench set to go global

The official announcement of the Elevate 61 participants was release today. We are very proud to be included in this list. Our latest offering "PredictBench" has been recognised as being innovative and exciting enough for Advance and KPMG to help us ...

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Guido Tapia

April 30, 2015

Machine Learning for the FMCG Industry

The unique characteristics of the FMCG industry make it an ideal candidate for Machine Learning and associated technologies. These characteristics include very large volumes of transactions and data, and a large number of data sources that influence ...

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Guido Tapia

June 2, 2015

PredictBench successfully predicts product classifications for one of the world's largest ecommerce and FMCG companies

As any large FMCG (CPG) is aware, classifying products correctly is critical to having good analytics capabilities. It is also clear to any global organisation that this is a surprisingly difficult task to achieve. Most regions use different classifi ...

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Guido Tapia

May 10, 2016

Upgrading from Angular 2 beta 17 to Angular 2 RC1

Upgrading through the angular2 betas has been a bit of a pain with lots of breaking changes but it seemed manageable. However, upgrading to RC1 was bad… So in the hopes of helping others here is my step by step guide. Please note: This works on my pr ...

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