2016 Mar Software

• The Shortest Path to Behavioral Analytics - Mar 31, 2016.
  Behavioral analytics provides the tools to answer complex business questions like retention and churn trends and its causes, multi-dimensional funnel analysis, and more, including intuitive querying and delightful behavioral reports. We can set you up in no time.

  Behavioral Analytics, Cooladata, Customer Behavior

• HPE Haven OnDemand and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning: Power Tools for Developers and Data Scientists - Mar 29, 2016.
  While both HPE and Microsoft machine learning platforms offer numerous possibilities for developers and data scientists, HPE Haven OnDemand is a diverse collection of APIs for interacting with data designed with flexibility in mind, allowing developers to quickly perform data tasks in the cloud.

  Azure ML, Haven OnDemand, HPE, Microsoft, Prediction

• XGBoost: Implementing the Winningest Kaggle Algorithm in Spark and Flink - Mar 24, 2016.
  An overview of XGBoost4J, a JVM-based implementation of XGBoost, one of the most successful recent machine learning algorithms in Kaggle competitions, with distributed support for Spark and Flink.

  Apache Spark, Distributed Systems, Flink, Kaggle, XGBoost

• How to get structured data from the web without crawling - Mar 10, 2016.
  When you need data from the web, you don't have to build a crawler. Webhose.io does the heavy lifting for you. Its crawlers download and structure millions of posts a day, and store and index the data so all you have to do is to define what data you need.

  Crawler, Unstructured data, Web services, Webhose.io

• Automated Data Science and Data Mining - Mar 4, 2016.
  Automated Data Science is becoming more popular. Here is our initial list of automated Data Science and Data Mining platforms.

  Automated, Data Science Platform, DataRobot

• scikit-feature: Open-Source Feature Selection Repository in Python - Mar 3, 2016.
  scikit-feature is an open-source feature selection repository in python, with around 40 popular algorithms in feature selection research. It is developed by Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab at Arizona State University.

  Data Mining, Data Science, Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, Machine Learning, Python

• Top Spark Ecosystem Projects - Mar 2, 2016.
  Apache Spark has developed a rich ecosystem, including both official and third party tools. We have a look at 5 third party projects which complement Spark in 5 different ways.

  Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, Cassandra, Databricks, Distributed Systems

• New Salford Predictive Modeler 8 - Mar 1, 2016.
  Salford Predictive Modeler software suite: Faster. More Comprehensive Machine Learning. More Automation. Better results. Take a giant step forward in your data science productivity with SPM 8. Download and try it today!

  Data Science Platform, Decision Trees, Gradient Boosting, Predictive Modeler, Regression, Salford Systems

• Distributed TensorFlow Has Arrived - Mar 1, 2016.
  Google has open sourced its distributed version of TensorFlow. Get the info on it here, and catch up on some other TensorFlow news at the same time.

  Deep Learning, Distributed Systems, Google, Matthew Mayo, TensorFlow