The hidden bugs waiting to be found by your international users While internationalizing our applications, we focus on the things we can see: text, tool-tips, error messages, and the like. But, hidden in our code there are places requiring internationalization that tend to be missed until found by our international…

Linear Regression on a huge dataset made easy with Apache Spark running on AWS — The final project for the Udacity Data Science Nanodegree program involved learning and using the Apache Spark platform to train a machine learning model on a large dataset. For the previous projects in this program, we were able to download the entire dataset on a local machine and do the…

Data science helps demystify the language — Enjoying wine is one thing, understanding the adjective laden language experts use when talking about it is another. If you’re like me, you’ve been amused and confused by descriptions comparing the taste (approvingly!) to “wet granite” or discussing the “nose” having hints of “graphite and pencil shavings”. …