News & Updates
November 5, 2014
The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists
Kaggle [http://www.kaggle.com/] 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 ...
October 24, 2014
Business future lies in cloud technology ?
My colleague David Booth recently wrote a nice article about Public Cloud Computing. This can be found ...
October 23, 2014
A Layman's Guide to Cloud Computing
The idea of cloud computing is not a new one. The concept has come and gone through various guises over the years. Consequently "the cloud" can mean many things to many people and this is why it can get very confusing to even seasoned IT professio ...
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 me ...
#machine-learning#pandas#predictive-analytics#python#scikit-learn
August 26, 2014
Naming Conventions in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
In this article I am going to discuss the importance of naming conventions in ML projects. What do I mean by naming conventions? I mainly mean using descriptive ways of labelling features in a data set. What is the reason for this? Speed of experi ...
July 23, 2014
Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises
In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may be contemplating doing someth ...