Will robots help us take over other planets? Not quite yet, but this is the message you get on Italian newspapers about this article . However, the real story is told to us by Science Magazine. So what is … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
One nice aspect of Principal Component Analysis is that it is relatively easy to implement. The main idea is: Project some data onto the direction of maximal variation Select a number of principal components which is definitely smaller than the original … Continue reading
A fast way to obfuscate your Python code, whenever you don’t really want to reveal the details of it, and still allow people to enjoy its functionality is to build the object file from readable code. This can be achieved … Continue reading
As part of a series of one-slide explanations of data mining tools and methods, here is the slide of decision trees. The slide above can be downloaded and distributed free of charge, provided the source is mentioned © 2015 worldofpiggy.com … Continue reading
Whenever I read about big data analytics, names like Hadoop and MapReduce pop out consistently. Specifically, the Hadoop framework allows to execute a number of traditional algorithms on massive datasets, without having any knowledge of systems engineering, load balancing, high … Continue reading