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DeskHoppa Engineering — Twitter, Kafka and being Data Driven.
This post was originally published on the DeskHoppa Engineering Blog on Medium. We built DeskHoppa on data driven decisions. The technology though is used to augment our decision making, not wholly make it for us. How we choose the hosts we contact is based on data, algorithms and probability. The search and match processes to…
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New Look vs Zara – They don’t compare. #smartretail #data
So I had a lot of fun talking loyalty, data and vouchers and generally dissing social media at Smart Retail last week. And while I enjoyed Adoreboard’s presentation I can stay silent no more, there’s one part I don’t agree with and it’s all to do with that slide on fashion retail. The original blog…
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Filtering the Streaming #Twitter API with #Onyx Plugin – #clojure #twitter #data #firehose #onyx
Twitter Fashion Analytics Revisited? Not quite but I have been working on revisiting the original work I did in SpringXD and moving it to the Onyx Framework. The Twitter Plugin for Onyx Workflows The original Onyx Twitter plugin acted as a handy input stream from the Twitter firehose. Nice and easy to setup too, just…
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|LIVE NOW| #meerkat How using Twitter’s user base may end badly.
Over the years (I can say that now) I’ve had the opinion that solely using Twitter as a user generation tool usually ends up bad. I also have the sneaking suspicion that history will no doubt repeat itself with AppMeerkat. Live Video – The Natural Progression On the surface it makes complete sense, live video.…
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#MachineLearning: Hands On For Developers and Technical Professionals. Pre Order.
The book has been on pre order for a little while already but I didn’t want say anything until there was a cover. So he we are, the book, coming on nicely and I’ve tried to keep things more developer focused than mathematical. A get-things-done book more than a theory book. General release isn’t until…
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Score Analytics on #flappybird with Python
I posted this as a hypothetical assignment for my Creative Technologies students at UU Magee for their Creative Coding modules but thought it can come here too. What is the average #flappybird score? I can’t get past 3 points and gave up after a few attempts as I’m not your classic game player type. Players…
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You need an #API…. actually you don’t.
An interesting discussion, albeit one of the 140 character micro splurt variety, this morning about API’s the need for them and the security concerns behind them. The messaging app Telegram on Android and iOS is similar to other messaging apps. All the usual stuff but with beefed up security, keys, distributed servers and it’s own…
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#Writing a #book on #MachineLearning, what I’ve learned so far.
For those that don’t know I’m currently in the middle of writing a book for Wiley called “Machine Learning, A Hands On Guide”, it’s fun but it’s also one of the hardest (but most rewarding) things I’ve taken on. So beyond all the things about decision trees, clustering and bayesian networks I go on a…
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Twitter Fashion Analytics in Spring XD [Part 4]#BigData #Fashion
The final phase, time to visualise. Visualisation is not always the be all and end all of BigData but it is important in terms of telling the story. At the end of the last post we had mined the data, got counts of all the hashtags and also whittled it down to three brands we…
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Twitter Fashion Analytics in Spring XD [Part 3]#BigData #Fashion
Just jumping in on part 3? You can read part 1 and part 2 to get you up to speed. Bringing in Hadoop So far we’ve used Spring XD to pull a stream of tweets into a file. And, normally, at this point we’d be looking to copy the file into HDFS and then run…