The Voice is a very successful show that runs in 28 countries around the globe. The basic concept in each version is the same: Four famous singers act as coaches. They have to select a team of vocalists through an audition process. The teams compete internally through a process of competitive elimination, until one vocalist per coach enters the Finals. There, the best vocalist of the four is declared 'The…

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It has been while when Big data entered into the market and buzz the analytics world. Now a day all analytics leaders are chanting about Big data applications. Since I have started with Hadoop technologies and with Machine learning one question has been bugging in mind:

Which is a greater innovation Big Data Or Machine Learning…

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Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics: Yehuda Koren's paper (http://research.yahoo.com/files/kdd-fp074-koren.pdf) , describes recommendation algorithm incorporating time dependent info.



Koren's paper describes in part the winning algorithm for Netfix's contest, http://www.netflixprize.com//index . It is very interesting algorithm and all comments on the paper are welcome. A news article describing the team is here:… Continue