IBM Cloud Image Classification, or Using Watson to Detect Rice
IBM’s Platform As A Service (PAAS) IBM Cloud makes it suuuuuper simple to make something like an image classifier. As I’m new to playing with any of this stuff, just the high level concept and usage is fun enough to start playing around with. It’s…
IBM Cloud / Bluemix / Cloud Lite Account
IBM was rolling out Bluemix when I was working there, which has now been renamed to IBM Cloud. Bluemix is probably just a subset of it today is my guess. As a Platform As A Service (PAAS) it provides a space for you to just…
What Is Netezza / PureData for Analytics
Hey kids! Do you want to do structured relational queries to a massively parallel database with custom FPGA hardware!? Sure you do, come with me on a magical adventure! Ok so I have a more detailed description of Netezza architecture on a site where I…
Predictive Modeling 101
So, what are we talking about when using a model here? Most of the time in my career, well pretty much all of the time, when I’ve been talking about a model, it’s been a data model. The way data is structured and stored in…
What is Kaggle?
What is Kaggle? For my purpose as a newbie to modeling, it’s a fantastic place to get projects to work on. It’s a platform which hosts data sets for modeling competitions, and it’s really an awesome idea and site to use. When learning a new…
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