How I deployed my spark document classification(Logistic Regression) model/s as a standalone app for real-time prediction

TLDR — Use pipelines to save TF-IDF model generated from the training set, and SVM model for prediction. So essentially save…

This One UX Choice Makes Tinder Irresistible

Great software has the power to change your life. Sometimes it’s love at first…

Epic high five, we just beat an enterprise algorithm

If you’ve never contemplated an algorithm for predicting lottery numbers or the fantasy football league then this will be boring. But if you are a secret data science nerd, then please join me in an epic high five!

The Wonderful Consequences of JavaScript as the Virtual Machine Language of the Web

Back in the late 90's, when the <blink> tag was still a thing and JavaScript was mostly used to alert(“something”), I briefly worked with an external consultant who made his living doing…

The Tainted Abyss: The Deep Web

Think of the internet as a large ocean and every Whale, Shark, Fish, Algea, etc are all websites. Pretty…

How Bots Can Influence the 2016 Presidential Election

Winning with data — your guide to the data-driven world.

What Shark Tank Gets Wrong: Valuation

Every week, my DVR records the latest episode of Shark Tank. And every week, when I’m done…

The Poet and the Variable

Developers often talk about software’s “most difficult problems”: cache invalidation and naming things. It’s a tongue-in-cheek joke with a lot of truth. It’s very difficult to take an abstract concept and boil it down to a single name, and that’s something that developers have to do…

Manifesting Our Destiny With Imagination, Devotion and Courage