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How BigML Finds Important Variables in Wide Datasets

This blog post is based on a talk I gave at the Dare2Data conference in Madrid. I recently found a

Bad things happen, but thankfully they tend to happen rarely. For example, you’d expect a small fraction of network traffic

People like to tweet about stocks, so much so that ticker symbols get their own special dollar sign like $AAPL or $FB. What

We’ve all heard about case interview questions where the victim (sorry, applicant) is asked to explain why manhole covers are round, or

When BigML first launched the SunBurst visualization for decision trees, I was amazed at what a big improvement it was

BigML uses decision trees to find patterns in data that are useful for prediction, and an “ensemble” of multiple trees

The idea of real time machine learning seems simple enough: build a system that immediately learns from the freshest data,

Tonight I am excited to participate in the SVForum panel on Machine Learning as a Service, my first public event

This is a guest post by David Gerster (@gerster), a data scientist and investor in BigML. I work at a consumer