Data Science and Beyond

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This is the second and last post summarising my team’s solution for the Yandex search personalisation Kaggle competition. See the first post for a summary of the dataset, evaluation approach, and some thoughts about search engine optimisation and privacy. This post discusses the algorithms and features we used. To quickly recap the first post, Yandex released a 16GB dataset of query & click logs.

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Wise Analytics

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Last week I was part of a panel discussion with Robin Bloor of the Bloor Group and Marc Clark from Teradata to discuss the TCO of cloud analytics and the strategic benefits and challenges of cloud deployments. The reality is that more organizations are looking to the cloud due to broader storage, big data management, and perceptions of lower cost and easier to maintain solutions.

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Ms SQL Girl

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I’m pleased to announce that I will be delivering a one day workshop as one of the two precons at SQL Saturday 382, Brisbane. The details of the course are listed below. I look forward to seeing you in Brisbane! Actionable Visualisation In Power BI. SQL Saturday 382 Brisbane, QLD. 27 Mar 2015 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. Early bird (until 13 Feb 2015) $265.00.

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you some recent great news! For the second year in a row, Nutanix has won the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from The Omega Management Group.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Such is the power of being able to proactively identify which of your competitor's strategies are working well, where their current customers come from, and what specific tactics y

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Ms SQL Girl

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I’m pleased to announce that I will be delivering a one day workshop as one of the two precons at SQL Saturday 382, Brisbane. The details of the course are listed below. I look forward to seeing you in Brisbane! Actionable Visualisation In Power BI. SQL Saturday 382 Brisbane, QLD. 27 Mar 2015 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. Early bird (until 13 Feb 2015) $265.00.

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Nutanix

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Security and flexibility don’t often end up in the same sentence, especially when it comes to delivering IT as a service.

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