Chris Bowden

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…
Agile Reflections

After 5 months of intense requirements gathering, business modeling, database development, unit testing, and deployment packaging I finally feel comfortable enough to take a moment to reflect on some notes I’ve taken. Agile project management demands a charismatic, detailed, and diligent leader. If none can be found, a diligent leader will do. The environment I’m…

Programming Collective Intelligence: Recommendation Techniques