Live analyzing movement through machine learning http://blog.telenor.io/2015/10/26/machine-learning.html

I might finally take a closer look at R :)

http://www.tweag.io/blog/programming-r-at-native-speed-using-haskell

Really enjoying the new series of ‘What’s new in Impala’ posts! http://blog.impala.io

Great read! Apache Kafka + Flink: a practical, how-to guide!

Probably my first, marginally meaningful, PR to an open source project, topmodel by Stripe https://github.com/stripe/topmodel/pull/23

Just watched Raymond Hettinger, Beyond PEP 8. You must watch it if writing code is (a part of) what you do! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

Just read Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets. What a great paper. Abstract here http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4781121 full text here http://yifanhu.net/PUB/cf.pdf Spark implementation here https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-collaborative-filtering.html

New post on the GoDataDriven blog! http://blog.godatadriven.com/parallel-connection.html

Full day hackathons at GoDataDriven are great! Just found the time to write a README and upload our parallel-connection Python package to PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parallel-connection/0.1.1

Github page here: http://github.com/godatadriven/ParallelConnection

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/08/how-apache-spark-scala-and-functional-programming-made-hard-problems-easy-at-barclays/