A quick visual guide to recommender systems (user based, item based, and matrix factorization) and the code behind making an apache spark MatrxFactorization Model with the ALS function.
Spotify uses a range of Machine Learning models to power its music recommendation features including the Discover page and Radio. Due to the iterative nature of training these models they suffer from IO overhead of Hadoop and are a natural fit to the Spark programming paradigm. In this talk I will present both the right way as well as the wrong way to implement collaborative filtering models with Spark. Additionally, I will deep dive into how Matrix Factorization is implemented in the MLlib library.
Speeding up Distributed Big Data Recommendation in SparkHans De Sterck
A talk on algorithms for parallel big data analytics in Spark. We present an algorithm to speed up ALS for collaborative filtering (think "the Netflix prize"), and show how this leads to significant speedup when implemented efficiently in parallel in Spark.
Best Paper Award at ICPADS 2015, Melbourne.
There is increasing need for large-scale recommendation systems. Typical solutions rely on periodically retrained batch algorithms, but for massive amounts of data, training a new model could take hours. This is a problem when the model needs to be more up-to-date. For example, when recommending TV programs while they are being transmitted the model should take into consideration users who watch a program at that time.
The promise of online recommendation systems is fast adaptation to changes, but methods of online machine learning from streams is commonly believed to be more restricted and hence less accurate than batch trained models. Combining batch and online learning could lead to a quickly adapting recommendation system with increased accuracy. However, designing a scalable data system for uniting batch and online recommendation algorithms is a challenging task. In this talk we present our experiences in creating such a recommendation engine with Apache Flink and Apache Spark.
Entity Resolution is the task of disambiguating manifestations of real world entities through linking and grouping and is often an essential part of the data wrangling process. There are three primary tasks involved in entity resolution: deduplication, record linkage, and canonicalization; each of which serve to improve data quality by reducing irrelevant or repeated data, joining information from disparate records, and providing a single source of information to perform analytics upon. However, due to data quality issues (misspellings or incorrect data), schema variations in different sources, or simply different representations, entity resolution is not a straightforward process and most ER techniques utilize machine learning and other stochastic approaches.
Feature Engineering - Getting most out of data for predictive models - TDC 2017Gabriel Moreira
How should data be preprocessed for use in machine learning algorithms? How to identify the most predictive attributes of a dataset? What features can generate to improve the accuracy of a model?
Feature Engineering is the process of extracting and selecting, from raw data, features that can be used effectively in predictive models. As the quality of the features greatly influences the quality of the results, knowing the main techniques and pitfalls will help you to succeed in the use of machine learning in your projects.
In this talk, we will present methods and techniques that allow us to extract the maximum potential of the features of a dataset, increasing flexibility, simplicity and accuracy of the models. The analysis of the distribution of features and their correlations, the transformation of numeric attributes (such as scaling, normalization, log-based transformation, binning), categorical attributes (such as one-hot encoding, feature hashing, Temporal (date / time), and free-text attributes (text vectorization, topic modeling).
Python, Python, Scikit-learn, and Spark SQL examples will be presented and how to use domain knowledge and intuition to select and generate features relevant to predictive models.
Spotify uses a range of Machine Learning models to power its music recommendation features including the Discover page and Radio. Due to the iterative nature of training these models they suffer from IO overhead of Hadoop and are a natural fit to the Spark programming paradigm. In this talk I will present both the right way as well as the wrong way to implement collaborative filtering models with Spark. Additionally, I will deep dive into how Matrix Factorization is implemented in the MLlib library.
Speeding up Distributed Big Data Recommendation in SparkHans De Sterck
A talk on algorithms for parallel big data analytics in Spark. We present an algorithm to speed up ALS for collaborative filtering (think "the Netflix prize"), and show how this leads to significant speedup when implemented efficiently in parallel in Spark.
Best Paper Award at ICPADS 2015, Melbourne.
There is increasing need for large-scale recommendation systems. Typical solutions rely on periodically retrained batch algorithms, but for massive amounts of data, training a new model could take hours. This is a problem when the model needs to be more up-to-date. For example, when recommending TV programs while they are being transmitted the model should take into consideration users who watch a program at that time.
The promise of online recommendation systems is fast adaptation to changes, but methods of online machine learning from streams is commonly believed to be more restricted and hence less accurate than batch trained models. Combining batch and online learning could lead to a quickly adapting recommendation system with increased accuracy. However, designing a scalable data system for uniting batch and online recommendation algorithms is a challenging task. In this talk we present our experiences in creating such a recommendation engine with Apache Flink and Apache Spark.
Entity Resolution is the task of disambiguating manifestations of real world entities through linking and grouping and is often an essential part of the data wrangling process. There are three primary tasks involved in entity resolution: deduplication, record linkage, and canonicalization; each of which serve to improve data quality by reducing irrelevant or repeated data, joining information from disparate records, and providing a single source of information to perform analytics upon. However, due to data quality issues (misspellings or incorrect data), schema variations in different sources, or simply different representations, entity resolution is not a straightforward process and most ER techniques utilize machine learning and other stochastic approaches.
Feature Engineering - Getting most out of data for predictive models - TDC 2017Gabriel Moreira
How should data be preprocessed for use in machine learning algorithms? How to identify the most predictive attributes of a dataset? What features can generate to improve the accuracy of a model?
Feature Engineering is the process of extracting and selecting, from raw data, features that can be used effectively in predictive models. As the quality of the features greatly influences the quality of the results, knowing the main techniques and pitfalls will help you to succeed in the use of machine learning in your projects.
In this talk, we will present methods and techniques that allow us to extract the maximum potential of the features of a dataset, increasing flexibility, simplicity and accuracy of the models. The analysis of the distribution of features and their correlations, the transformation of numeric attributes (such as scaling, normalization, log-based transformation, binning), categorical attributes (such as one-hot encoding, feature hashing, Temporal (date / time), and free-text attributes (text vectorization, topic modeling).
Python, Python, Scikit-learn, and Spark SQL examples will be presented and how to use domain knowledge and intuition to select and generate features relevant to predictive models.
Visual diagnostics for more effective machine learningBenjamin Bengfort
The model selection process is a search for the best combination of features, algorithm, and hyperparameters that maximize F1, R2, or silhouette scores after cross-validation. This view of machine learning often leads us toward automated processes such as grid searches and random walks. Although this approach allows us to try many combinations, we are often left wondering if we have actually succeeded.
By enhancing model selection with visual diagnostics, data scientists can inject human guidance to steer the search process. Visualizing feature transformations, algorithmic behavior, cross-validation methods, and model performance allows us a peek into the high dimensional realm that our models operate. As we continue to tune our models, trying to minimize both bias and variance, these glimpses allow us to be more strategic in our choices. The result is more effective modeling, speedier results, and greater understanding of underlying processes.
Visualization is an integral part of the data science workflow, but visual diagnostics are directly tied to machine learning transformers and models. The Yellowbrick library extends the scikit-learn API providing a Visualizer object, an estimator that learns from data and produces a visualization as a result. In this talk, we will explore feature visualizers, visualizers for classification, clustering, and regression, as well as model analysis visualizers. We'll work through several examples and show how visual diagnostics steer model selection, making machine learning more effective.
Visualizing Model Selection with Scikit-Yellowbrick: An Introduction to Devel...Benjamin Bengfort
This is an overview of the goals and roadmap for the Yellowbrick model visualization library (www.scikit-yb.org). If you're interested in contributing to Yellowbrick or writing visualizers, this is a good place to get started.
In the presentation we discuss the expected workflow of data scientists interacting with the model selection triple and Scikit-Learn. We describe the Yellowbrick API and it's relationship to the Scikit-Learn API. We introduce our primary object: the Visualizer, an estimator that learns from data and displays it visually. Finally we describe the requirements for developing for Yellowbrick, the tools and utilities in place and how to get started.
Yellowbrick is a suite of visual diagnostic tools called "Visualizers" that extend the Scikit-Learn API to allow human steering of the model selection process. In a nutshell, Yellowbrick combines Scikit-Learn with Matplotlib in the best tradition of the Scikit-Learn documentation, but to produce visualizations for your models!
This presentation was given during the opening session of the 2017 Spring DDL Research Labs.
Scikit-Learn is a powerful machine learning library implemented in Python with numeric and scientific computing powerhouses Numpy, Scipy, and matplotlib for extremely fast analysis of small to medium sized data sets. It is open source, commercially usable and contains many modern machine learning algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, feature extraction, and optimization. For this reason Scikit-Learn is often the first tool in a Data Scientists toolkit for machine learning of incoming data sets.
The purpose of this one day course is to serve as an introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn. We will explore several clustering, classification, and regression algorithms for a variety of machine learning tasks and learn how to implement these tasks with our data using Scikit-Learn and Python. In particular, we will structure our machine learning models as though we were producing a data product, an actionable model that can be used in larger programs or algorithms; rather than as simply a research or investigation methodology.
Using only simple rules for local interactions, groups of agents can form self-organizing super-organisms or “flocks” that show global emergent behavior. When agents are also extended with memory and goals the resulting flock not only demonstrates emergent behavior, but also collective intelligence: the ability for the group to solve problems that might be beyond the ability of the individual alone. Until now, research has focused on the improvement of particle design for global behavior; however, techniques for human-designed particles are task-specific. In this paper we will demonstrate that evolutionary computing techniques can be applied to design particles, not only to optimize the parameters for movement but also the structure of controlling finite state machines that enable collective intelligence. The evolved design not only exhibits emergent, self-organizing behavior but also significantly outperforms a human design in a specific problem domain. The strategy of the evolved design may be very different from what is intuitive to humans and perhaps reflects more accurately how nature designs systems for problem solving. Furthermore, evolutionary design of particles for collective intelligence is more flexible and able to target a wider array of problems either individually or as a whole.
Algorithmic Music Recommendations at SpotifyChris Johnson
In this presentation I introduce various Machine Learning methods that we utilize for music recommendations and discovery at Spotify. Specifically, I focus on Implicit Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering, how to implement a small scale version using python, numpy, and scipy, as well as how to scale up to 20 Million users and 24 Million songs using Hadoop and Spark.
Machine learning is the hacker art of describing the features of instances that we want to make predictions about, then fitting the data that describes those instances to a model form. Applied machine learning has come a long way from it's beginnings in academia, and with tools like Scikit-Learn, it's easier than ever to generate operational models for a wide variety of applications. Thanks to the ease and variety of the tools in Scikit-Learn, the primary job of the data scientist is model selection. Model selection involves performing feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and algorithm selection. These dimensions of machine learning often lead computer scientists towards automatic model selection via optimization (maximization) of a model's evaluation metric. However, the search space is large, and grid search approaches to machine learning can easily lead to failure and frustration. Human intuition is still essential to machine learning, and visual analysis in concert with automatic methods can allow data scientists to steer model selection towards better fitted models, faster. In this talk, we will discuss interactive visual methods for better understanding, steering, and tuning machine learning models.
Feature Engineering - Getting most out of data for predictive modelsGabriel Moreira
How should data be preprocessed for use in machine learning algorithms? How to identify the most predictive attributes of a dataset? What features can generate to improve the accuracy of a model?
Feature Engineering is the process of extracting and selecting, from raw data, features that can be used effectively in predictive models. As the quality of the features greatly influences the quality of the results, knowing the main techniques and pitfalls will help you to succeed in the use of machine learning in your projects.
In this talk, we will present methods and techniques that allow us to extract the maximum potential of the features of a dataset, increasing flexibility, simplicity and accuracy of the models. The analysis of the distribution of features and their correlations, the transformation of numeric attributes (such as scaling, normalization, log-based transformation, binning), categorical attributes (such as one-hot encoding, feature hashing, Temporal (date / time), and free-text attributes (text vectorization, topic modeling).
Python, Python, Scikit-learn, and Spark SQL examples will be presented and how to use domain knowledge and intuition to select and generate features relevant to predictive models.
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python and scikit-learnMatt Hagy
PyATL talk about machine learning. Provides both an intro to machine learning and how to do it with Python. Includes simple examples with code and results.
Data products derive their value from data and generate new data in return; as a result, machine learning techniques must be applied to their architecture and their development. Machine learning fits models to make predictions on unknown inputs and must be generalizable and adaptable. As such, fitted models cannot exist in isolation; they must be operationalized and user facing so that applications can benefit from the new data, respond to it, and feed it back into the data product. Data product architectures are therefore life cycles and understanding the data product lifecycle will enable architects to develop robust, failure free workflows and applications. In this talk we will discuss the data product life cycle, explore how to engage a model build, evaluation, and selection phase with an operation and interaction phase. Following the lambda architecture, we will investigate wrapping a central computational store for speed and querying, as well as incorporating a discussion of monitoring, management, and data exploration for hypothesis driven development. From web applications to big data appliances; this architecture serves as a blueprint for handling data services of all sizes!
Using Deep Learning to Find Similar DressesHJ van Veen
Report by Luís Mey ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lu%C3%ADs-gustavo-bernardo-mey-97b38927/ ) on Udacity Machine Learning Course - Final Project: Use Deep Learning to Find Similar Dresses.
This article got published in the Software Developer's Journal's February Edition.
It describes the use of MapReduce paradigm to design Clustering algorithms and explain three algorithms using MapReduce.
- K-Means Clustering
- Canopy Clustering
- MinHash Clustering
With the explosive growth of online information, recommender system has been an effective tool to overcome information overload and promote sales. In recent years, deep learning's revolutionary advances in speech recognition, image analysis and natural language processing have gained significant attention. Meanwhile, recent studies also demonstrate its efficacy in coping with information retrieval and recommendation tasks. Applying deep learning techniques into recommender system has been gaining momentum due to its state-of-the-art performance. In this talk, I will present recent development of deep learning based recommender models and highlight some future challenges and open issues of this research field.
Josh Patterson, Principal at Patterson Consulting: Introduction to Parallel Iterative Machine Learning Algorithms on Hadoop’s NextGeneration YARN Framework
Build a Recommendation Engine using Amazon Machine Learning in Real-timeAmazon Web Services
Amazon Machine Learning is a service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology. In this session, we will introduce how to use Amazon Machine Learning to create a data model, and use it to generate the real-time prediction for your application.
A very short set of slides to describe an RDD data structure.
Extracted from my 3-day course: www.sparkInternals.com
There is also a video of this on YouTube: http://youtu.be/odcEg515Ne8
Visual diagnostics for more effective machine learningBenjamin Bengfort
The model selection process is a search for the best combination of features, algorithm, and hyperparameters that maximize F1, R2, or silhouette scores after cross-validation. This view of machine learning often leads us toward automated processes such as grid searches and random walks. Although this approach allows us to try many combinations, we are often left wondering if we have actually succeeded.
By enhancing model selection with visual diagnostics, data scientists can inject human guidance to steer the search process. Visualizing feature transformations, algorithmic behavior, cross-validation methods, and model performance allows us a peek into the high dimensional realm that our models operate. As we continue to tune our models, trying to minimize both bias and variance, these glimpses allow us to be more strategic in our choices. The result is more effective modeling, speedier results, and greater understanding of underlying processes.
Visualization is an integral part of the data science workflow, but visual diagnostics are directly tied to machine learning transformers and models. The Yellowbrick library extends the scikit-learn API providing a Visualizer object, an estimator that learns from data and produces a visualization as a result. In this talk, we will explore feature visualizers, visualizers for classification, clustering, and regression, as well as model analysis visualizers. We'll work through several examples and show how visual diagnostics steer model selection, making machine learning more effective.
Visualizing Model Selection with Scikit-Yellowbrick: An Introduction to Devel...Benjamin Bengfort
This is an overview of the goals and roadmap for the Yellowbrick model visualization library (www.scikit-yb.org). If you're interested in contributing to Yellowbrick or writing visualizers, this is a good place to get started.
In the presentation we discuss the expected workflow of data scientists interacting with the model selection triple and Scikit-Learn. We describe the Yellowbrick API and it's relationship to the Scikit-Learn API. We introduce our primary object: the Visualizer, an estimator that learns from data and displays it visually. Finally we describe the requirements for developing for Yellowbrick, the tools and utilities in place and how to get started.
Yellowbrick is a suite of visual diagnostic tools called "Visualizers" that extend the Scikit-Learn API to allow human steering of the model selection process. In a nutshell, Yellowbrick combines Scikit-Learn with Matplotlib in the best tradition of the Scikit-Learn documentation, but to produce visualizations for your models!
This presentation was given during the opening session of the 2017 Spring DDL Research Labs.
Scikit-Learn is a powerful machine learning library implemented in Python with numeric and scientific computing powerhouses Numpy, Scipy, and matplotlib for extremely fast analysis of small to medium sized data sets. It is open source, commercially usable and contains many modern machine learning algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, feature extraction, and optimization. For this reason Scikit-Learn is often the first tool in a Data Scientists toolkit for machine learning of incoming data sets.
The purpose of this one day course is to serve as an introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn. We will explore several clustering, classification, and regression algorithms for a variety of machine learning tasks and learn how to implement these tasks with our data using Scikit-Learn and Python. In particular, we will structure our machine learning models as though we were producing a data product, an actionable model that can be used in larger programs or algorithms; rather than as simply a research or investigation methodology.
Using only simple rules for local interactions, groups of agents can form self-organizing super-organisms or “flocks” that show global emergent behavior. When agents are also extended with memory and goals the resulting flock not only demonstrates emergent behavior, but also collective intelligence: the ability for the group to solve problems that might be beyond the ability of the individual alone. Until now, research has focused on the improvement of particle design for global behavior; however, techniques for human-designed particles are task-specific. In this paper we will demonstrate that evolutionary computing techniques can be applied to design particles, not only to optimize the parameters for movement but also the structure of controlling finite state machines that enable collective intelligence. The evolved design not only exhibits emergent, self-organizing behavior but also significantly outperforms a human design in a specific problem domain. The strategy of the evolved design may be very different from what is intuitive to humans and perhaps reflects more accurately how nature designs systems for problem solving. Furthermore, evolutionary design of particles for collective intelligence is more flexible and able to target a wider array of problems either individually or as a whole.
Algorithmic Music Recommendations at SpotifyChris Johnson
In this presentation I introduce various Machine Learning methods that we utilize for music recommendations and discovery at Spotify. Specifically, I focus on Implicit Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering, how to implement a small scale version using python, numpy, and scipy, as well as how to scale up to 20 Million users and 24 Million songs using Hadoop and Spark.
Machine learning is the hacker art of describing the features of instances that we want to make predictions about, then fitting the data that describes those instances to a model form. Applied machine learning has come a long way from it's beginnings in academia, and with tools like Scikit-Learn, it's easier than ever to generate operational models for a wide variety of applications. Thanks to the ease and variety of the tools in Scikit-Learn, the primary job of the data scientist is model selection. Model selection involves performing feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and algorithm selection. These dimensions of machine learning often lead computer scientists towards automatic model selection via optimization (maximization) of a model's evaluation metric. However, the search space is large, and grid search approaches to machine learning can easily lead to failure and frustration. Human intuition is still essential to machine learning, and visual analysis in concert with automatic methods can allow data scientists to steer model selection towards better fitted models, faster. In this talk, we will discuss interactive visual methods for better understanding, steering, and tuning machine learning models.
Feature Engineering - Getting most out of data for predictive modelsGabriel Moreira
How should data be preprocessed for use in machine learning algorithms? How to identify the most predictive attributes of a dataset? What features can generate to improve the accuracy of a model?
Feature Engineering is the process of extracting and selecting, from raw data, features that can be used effectively in predictive models. As the quality of the features greatly influences the quality of the results, knowing the main techniques and pitfalls will help you to succeed in the use of machine learning in your projects.
In this talk, we will present methods and techniques that allow us to extract the maximum potential of the features of a dataset, increasing flexibility, simplicity and accuracy of the models. The analysis of the distribution of features and their correlations, the transformation of numeric attributes (such as scaling, normalization, log-based transformation, binning), categorical attributes (such as one-hot encoding, feature hashing, Temporal (date / time), and free-text attributes (text vectorization, topic modeling).
Python, Python, Scikit-learn, and Spark SQL examples will be presented and how to use domain knowledge and intuition to select and generate features relevant to predictive models.
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python and scikit-learnMatt Hagy
PyATL talk about machine learning. Provides both an intro to machine learning and how to do it with Python. Includes simple examples with code and results.
Data products derive their value from data and generate new data in return; as a result, machine learning techniques must be applied to their architecture and their development. Machine learning fits models to make predictions on unknown inputs and must be generalizable and adaptable. As such, fitted models cannot exist in isolation; they must be operationalized and user facing so that applications can benefit from the new data, respond to it, and feed it back into the data product. Data product architectures are therefore life cycles and understanding the data product lifecycle will enable architects to develop robust, failure free workflows and applications. In this talk we will discuss the data product life cycle, explore how to engage a model build, evaluation, and selection phase with an operation and interaction phase. Following the lambda architecture, we will investigate wrapping a central computational store for speed and querying, as well as incorporating a discussion of monitoring, management, and data exploration for hypothesis driven development. From web applications to big data appliances; this architecture serves as a blueprint for handling data services of all sizes!
Using Deep Learning to Find Similar DressesHJ van Veen
Report by Luís Mey ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/lu%C3%ADs-gustavo-bernardo-mey-97b38927/ ) on Udacity Machine Learning Course - Final Project: Use Deep Learning to Find Similar Dresses.
This article got published in the Software Developer's Journal's February Edition.
It describes the use of MapReduce paradigm to design Clustering algorithms and explain three algorithms using MapReduce.
- K-Means Clustering
- Canopy Clustering
- MinHash Clustering
With the explosive growth of online information, recommender system has been an effective tool to overcome information overload and promote sales. In recent years, deep learning's revolutionary advances in speech recognition, image analysis and natural language processing have gained significant attention. Meanwhile, recent studies also demonstrate its efficacy in coping with information retrieval and recommendation tasks. Applying deep learning techniques into recommender system has been gaining momentum due to its state-of-the-art performance. In this talk, I will present recent development of deep learning based recommender models and highlight some future challenges and open issues of this research field.
Josh Patterson, Principal at Patterson Consulting: Introduction to Parallel Iterative Machine Learning Algorithms on Hadoop’s NextGeneration YARN Framework
Build a Recommendation Engine using Amazon Machine Learning in Real-timeAmazon Web Services
Amazon Machine Learning is a service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology. In this session, we will introduce how to use Amazon Machine Learning to create a data model, and use it to generate the real-time prediction for your application.
A very short set of slides to describe an RDD data structure.
Extracted from my 3-day course: www.sparkInternals.com
There is also a video of this on YouTube: http://youtu.be/odcEg515Ne8
Active Learning in Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems : a SurveyUniversity of Bergen
In collaborative filtering recommender systems user’s preferences are expressed as ratings for items, and each additional rating extends the knowledge of the system and affects the system’s recommendation accuracy. In general, the more ratings are elicited from the users, the more effective the recommendations are. However, the usefulness of each rating may vary significantly, i.e., different ratings may bring a different amount and type of information about the user’s tastes. Hence, specific techniques, which are defined as “active learning strategies”, can be used to selectively choose the items to be presented to the user for rating. In fact, an active learning strategy identifies and adopts criteria for obtaining data that better reflects users’ preferences and enables to generate better recommendations.
Netflix's Recommendation ML Pipeline Using Apache Spark: Spark Summit East ta...Spark Summit
Netflix is the world’s largest streaming service, with 80 million members in over 250 countries. Netflix uses machine learning to inform nearly every aspect of the product, from the recommendations you get, to the boxart you see, to the decisions made about which TV shows and movies are created.
Given this scale, we utilized Apache Spark to be the engine of our recommendation pipeline. Apache Spark enables Netflix to use a single, unified framework/API – for ETL, feature generation, model training, and validation. With pipeline framework in Spark ML, each step within the Netflix recommendation pipeline (e.g. label generation, feature encoding, model training, model evaluation) is encapsulated as Transformers, Estimators and Evaluators – enabling modularity, composability and testability. Thus, Netflix engineers can build our own feature engineering logics as Transformers, learning algorithms as Estimators, and customized metrics as Evaluators, and with these building blocks, we can more easily experiment with new pipelines and rapidly deploy them to production.
In this talk, we will discuss how Apache Spark is used as a distributed framework we build our own algorithms on top of to generate personalized recommendations for each of our 80+ million subscribers, specific techniques we use at Netflix to scale, and the various pitfalls we’ve found along the way.
Système de recommandations de produits sur un site marchand par Koby KARP, Data Scientist (Equancy) & Hervé MIGNOT, Partner at Equancy
La recommandation reste un outil clé pour la personnalisation des sites marchands et le sujet est loin d’être épuisé. La prise en compte de la particularité d’un marché peut nécessité d’adapter le traitement et les algorithmes utilisés. Après une revue des techniques de recommandations, nous présenterons la démarche spécifique que nous avons adopté. Le système a été développé sous Spark pour la préparation des données et le calcul des modèles de recommandations. Une API simple et son service ont été développé pour délivrer les recommandations aux applications clientes.
Running Intelligent Applications inside a Database: Deep Learning with Python...Miguel González-Fierro
In this talk we present a new paradigm of computation where the intelligence is computed inside the database. Standard software systems must get the data from the database to execute a routine. If the size of the data is big, there are inefficiencies due to the data movement. Store procedures tried to solve this issue in the past, allowing for computing simple functions inside the database. However, only simple routines can be executed.
To showcase the capabilities of our new system, we created a lung cancer detection algorithm using Microsoft’s Cognitive Toolkit, also known as CNTK. We used transfer learning between ImageNet dataset, which contains natural images, and a lung cancer dataset, which contains scans of horizontal sections of the lung for healthy and sick patients. Specifically, a pretrained Convolutional Neural Network on ImageNet is used on the lung cancer dataset to generate features. Once the features are computed, a boosted tree is applied to predict whether the patient has cancer or not.
All this process is computed inside the database, so the data movement is minimized. We are even able to execute the algorithm using the GPU of the virtual machine that hosts the database. Using a GPU, we can compute the featurization in less than 1h, in contrast to using a CPU, that would take up to 32h. Finally, we set up an API to connect the solution to a web app, where a doctor can analyze the images and get a prediction of a patient.
Building Content Recommendation Systems Using Apache MXNet and Gluon - MCL402...Amazon Web Services
Recommendations are becoming an integral part of how many business serve customers, from targeted shopping on demand video. In this session, you’ll learn the key elements to build a recommendation system using Gluon, the new intuitive, dynamic programming interface for Apache MXNet. You’ll use matrix factorization techniques to build a video on-demand solution using deep learning.
Machine learning key to your formulation challengesMarc Borowczak
You develop pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, industrial or civil engineered products, and are often confronted with the challenge of blending and formulating to meet process or performance properties. While traditional Research and Development does approach the problem with experimentation, it generally involves designs, time and resource constraints, and can be considered slow, expensive and often times redundant, fast forgotten or perhaps obsolete.
Consider the alternative Machine Learning tools offers today. We will show this is not only quick, efficient and ultimately the only way Front End of Innovation should proceed, and how it is particularly suited for formulation and classification.
Today, we will explain how Machine Learning can shed new light on this generic and very persistent formulation challenge. We will discuss the other important aspect of classification and clustering often associated with these formulations challenges in a forthcoming communication.
This one is about advanced indexing in PostgreSQL. It guides you through basic concepts as well as through advanced techniques to speed up the database.
All important PostgreSQL Index types explained: btree, gin, gist, sp-gist and hashes.
Regular expression indexes and LIKE queries are also covered.
Building Content Recommendation Systems using MXNet GluonApache MXNet
Netflix competition triggered a flurry of research for recommendation engines. This presentation provides a survey of techniques and models for creating a recommender system. The presentation covers Matrix Factorisation, Factorisation Machines, Distributed Factorisation Machines, and DSSM networks as well provide code examples for developing a Matrix Factorisation in Gluon. At the end the presentation provides tips and tricks for large-scale, realtime recommender engines.
Dimensionality reduction, or dimension reduction, is the transformation of data from a high-dimensional space into a low-dimensional space so that the low-dimensional representation retains some meaningful properties of the original data
Benchy: Lightweight framework for Performance Benchmarks Marcel Caraciolo
Benchy: Lightweight framework for Performance Benchmarks on Python Scripts.
Presented at XXVI Pernambuco Python User Group Meeting at Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil on 06.04.2013
The workshop is an overview of creating predictive models using R. An example data set will be used to demonstrate a typical workflow: data splitting, pre-processing, model tuning and evaluation. Several R packages will be shown along with the caret package which provides a unified interface to a large number of R’s modeling functions and enables parallel processing. Participants should have a basic understanding of R data structures and basic language elements (i.e. functions, classes, etc).
DN 2017 | Multi-Paradigm Data Science - On the many dimensions of Knowledge D...Dataconomy Media
Gaining insight from data is not as straightforward as we often wish it would be – as diverse as the questions we’re asking are the quality and the quantity of the data we may have at hand. Any attempt to turn data into knowledge thus strongly depends on it dealing with big or not-so-big data, high- or low-dimensional data, exact or fuzzy data, exact or fuzzy questions, and the goal being accurate prediction or understanding. This presentation emphasizes the need for a multi-paradigm data science to tackle all the challenges we are facing today and may be facing in the future. Luckily, solutions are starting to emerge...
Yufeng Guo | Coding the 7 steps of machine learning | Codemotion Madrid 2018 Codemotion
Machine learning has gained a lot of attention as the next big thing. But what is it, really, and how can we use it? In this talk, you'll learn the meaning behind buzzwords like hyperparameter tuning, and see the code behind each step of machine learning. This talk will help demystify the "magic" behind machine learning. You'll come away with a foundation that you can build on, and an understanding of the tools to build with!
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
22. Data
Preparation
train, test = ratings.randomSplit([0.7,0.3],7856)
train.count()
70,005
test.count()
29,995
train.cache()
test.cache()
23. Modeling
rank = 5 # Latent Factors to be made
numIterations = 10 # Times to repeat process
#Create the model on the training data
model = ALS.train(train, rank, numIterations)
25. Modeling /
Evaluation
# For Product X, Find N Users to Sell To
model.recommendUsers(242,100)
# For User Y Find N Products to Promote
model.recommendProducts(196,10)
#Predict Single Product for Single User
model.predict(196, 242)
26. Modeling /
Evaluation
# Predict Multi Users and Multi Products
# Pre-Processing
pred_input = train.map(lambda x:(x[0],x[1]))
# Lots of Predictions
pred = model.predictAll(pred_input)
#Returns Ratings(user, item, prediction)
(196, 242)
Rating(user=894, product=1560, rating=3.845)
27. Evaluation
User Item Actual Pred
196 242 3.0 3.91
186 302 3.0 3.29
22 377 1.0 1.09
244 51 2.0 3.66
298 474 4.0 4.11
TRAINING
RMSE: 0.763
28. Evaluation
#Organize the data to make (user, product) the key)
true_reorg = train.map(lambda x:((x[0],x[1]), x[2]))
pred_reorg = pred.map(lambda x:((x[0],x[1]), x[2]))
#Do the actual join
true_pred = true_reorg.join(pred_reorg)
from math import sqrt
MSE = true_pred.map(lambda r: (r[1][0] - r[1][1])**2).mean()
RMSE = sqrt(MSE)
#Results in 0.7629908117414474
((582, 1014), (4.0, 3.397))
((196, 242), 3.0)
32. RECAP
rank = 5; numIterations = 10;
#Create the model on the training data
model = ALS.train(train, rank, numIterations)
# Lots of Predictions
pred = model.predictAll(pred_input)
#Examine Model Features
model.productFeatures()
# Save your model!
model.save(sc,"../out/ml-model")
