Sat.Oct 31, 2015 - Fri.Nov 06, 2015

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Migrating a simple web application from MongoDB to Elasticsearch

Data Science and Beyond

Bandcamp Recommender (BCRecommender) is a web application that serves music recommendations from Bandcamp. I recently switched BCRecommender’s data store from MongoDB to Elasticsearch. This has made it possible to offer a richer search experience to users at a similar cost. This post describes the migration process and discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of using Elasticsearch instead of MongoDB.

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Nutanix and Lenovo

Nutanix

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by OMKAR MURALIDHARAN Many machine learning applications have some kind of regression at their core, so understanding large-scale regression systems is important. But doing this can be hard, for reasons not typically encountered in problems with smaller or less critical regression systems. In this post, we describe the challenges posed by one problem — how to get approximate posteriors — and an approach that we have found useful.

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

Facebook, at last count, has 1.5 billion monthly active users. YouTube has 1.2 billion users (watching 6 billion hours of videos!). Instagram has an estimated 400 million users. Those are some big gigantic numbers! I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. The benefits are numerous. Facebook allows you to stay close to people you choose to.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.