Category: Projects
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Transition Complete, More Kimball, Telework, and R
As 2013 comes to a close, trying to succinctly wrangle the dense whirlwind of the past 300+ days is almost impossible. Most recently I’ve discovered a possible career angle to pursue – Operations Research. In that pursuit, I ran through a really great R tutorial sponsored by O’Reilly: Try R. R allows manipulation of files like…
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Recommendation Techniques
I’m in the process of reading and working along with Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran. The book (so far) presents applied statistics through the lens of Big Data (“Web 2.0” as the book, published 2007, so quaintly refers to). The first two recommendation techniques covered use Euclidean Distance and Pearson Correlation to determine the similarity…
Chris Bowden 