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Using Spark, Python, and Parquet for Loading Large Datasets – Douglas Eisenstein ODSC Boston 2015
Spark, Python and Parquet from odsc Have you been in the situation where you’re about to start a new project and ask yourself, what’s the right tool for the job here? I’ve been in that situation many times and thought it might be useful to share... Read more
Using Python with Apache Storm and Kafka – Keith Bourgoin ODSC Boston 2015
http://bit.ly/KeithBourgoinPresentation As Python gains more and more traction in data science, the ability to interact with large scale data processing systems has greatly improved. Instead of being limited to what can fit on one’s laptop or having to wait for a Hadoop job to complete, we... Read more
Monary: Really fast analysis with MongoDB and NumPy – Anna Herlihy ODSC Boston 2015
Monary from odsc “MongoDB is a scalable, flexible and easy to use way of storing large data sets. Python and NumPy provide a comprehensive toolkit for data analysis. Unfortunately they don’t work together as well as they could: the official Python driver for MongoDB, PyMongo, is... Read more
On Demand Analytic and Learning Environments with Jupyter – Kyle Kelley and Andrew Odewahn ODSC Boston 2015
http://bit.ly/Odewahn_KelleyPresentation The Jupyter/IPython project has been building systems to enable collections of users to work on a shared system within their team, lab, and on a wide web audience. There is the multi user server JupyterHub, the temporary notebook system (tmpnb), blossoming Google Drive integration (jupyter-drive),... Read more
What Can Graphs Teach Us about Teachers: Using Graphs for High Quality Recommendations – Amit Bhattacharyya ODSC Boston 2015
What Can Graphs Teach Us about Teachers: Using Graphs for High Quality Recommendations from odsc Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace for teachers to buy, sell and share original educational resources. As any marketplace grows, there is an increasing need to provide a customized experience... Read more
Searching for Meaning in the Deep Web – Andy Terrel ODSC Boston 2015
Searching for Meaning in the Deep Web from odsc The internet is a big place and most people’s interaction with it is regulated by a few companies paid to sell you things. My team has been building tools for the DARPA Memex project to democratize search... Read more
xlwings – Make Excel Fly with Python – Feliz Zumstein ODSC Boston 2015
xlwings – Make Excel Fly with Python from odsc xlwings is an open-source Python package that connects Excel with Python on Windows and Mac. It allows for interactive use from IPython Notebooks or any other Python environment but also allows to run Python code from Excel... Read more