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H2O vs R - Winning KDDCup98 in 10 minutes with H2O
H2O is a scalable and open-source math and machine learning platform for big data. It can handle much bigger datasets and run a lot faster than R/SAS even on a single machine. How does the modeling experience with H2O differ from the experience using traditional tools such as R/SAS? This blog answers exactly this question. In particular, ...
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H2O WORLD 2014 Machine Learning IS Fun.
Earlier this year I found myself sitting among 100 or so data scientists at a meetup , eating a taco and listening to how a former particle physicist found the Higgs Boson particle over a weekend using commodity hardware and open source software . Even more impressive was his ability to answer the unrelenting questions from the audience ...
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What if the S language had been copyrighted?
At H2O World 2014, we were fortunate to have Josh Bloch give a reprise of his A Brief, Opinionated History of the API talk that he first delivered at SPLASH 2014 . (For those with the time, you can watch a 47 minute 21 second recording of this talk on the H2O.ai YouTube channel.) This is one of those subjects that I wish I could say m...
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Key Takeaways from the World's Top Kagglers
Ever wondered why data science is so competitive? After a highly successful H2O World event last week, we’re shining some light on what we’ve learned from some of the world’s best data scientists and how they go about winning these data science challenges such as Kaggle . In case you missed it, we held a Competitive Data Science Panel ...
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Predictive Modeling at Scale: Cisco Modernizes Predictive Model Production with H2O (joint work with Lou Carvalheira)
Cisco’s ChallengesCisco is the global leader in networking. It is a company that has long embraced the power of predictive analytics. On a regular quarter, Cisco’s Strategic Marketing Organization builds and deploys around 60,000 predictive models to treat each of 160M+ companies it maintains in its database. These models generate predict...
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Introducing Flow!
After several weeks of active development, we’re proud to unveil H2O Flow, our brand new, open-source user interface for H2O! We used it live during our H2O World keynote today, and this blog post is a brief introduction to some of the core ideas behind H2O Flow.H2O Flow is a web-based interactive computational environment where you can ...
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Competitive Data Science, Kaggle, Kdd and other Sports
Panelists:This panel promises to be just brilliant and full of sparks!Guocong Song https://www.kaggle.com/users/41275/guocong-song Jose Guerrero https://www.kaggle.com/users/5642/jos-a-guerrero Mark Landry https://github.com/mlandry22/kaggle/commits/master Arno Candel http://www.slideshare.net/0xdata/h2o-distributed-deep-learning-by-arno-...
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Hacking Algorithms in H2O With Cliff
Interested in Hacking Algorithms with me? I’ll be at H2 O World all day Tuesday looking to join you in doing some fun hacking. Here are 3 sample starter hacks to help you get over the H2O learning curve – Hacking KMeans Hacking Quantiles Hacking Grep All 3 take you step-by-step through the process of building a new algorithm into H2O’...
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Hacking Algorithms into H2O: Grep
This is a presentation of hacking a simple algorithm into the new dev-friendly branch of H2O, h2o-dev. This is one of three “Hacking Algorithms into H2O” blogs. All of these blogs start out the same: getting the h2o-dev code and building it. They are the same until the section titled Building Our Algorithm: Copying from the Example, and ...
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Hacking Algorithms into H2O: Quantiles
This is a presentation of hacking a simple algorithm into the new dev-friendlybranch of H2O, H2O 3.0. This is one of three “Hacking Algorithms into H2O” blogs. All three blogsstart out the same: getting the h2o-3 code and building it. They are the same until the section titled Building Our Algorithm: Copying from theExample, and then ...
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Hacking Algorithms into H2O: KMeans
This is a presentation of hacking a simple algorithm into the new dev-friendlybranch of H2O, h2o-dev. This is one of three “Hacking Algorithms into H2O” blogs. All blogsstart out the same – getting the h2o-dev code and building it. They are thesame until the section titled Building Our Algorithm: Copying from theExample, and then the ...
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Sparkling Water on YARN Example
Follow these easy steps to get your first Sparkling Water example to run on a YARN cluster. This example uses Hortonworks HDP 2.1. 1. Assumptions Installed: Java 1.7+ YARN cluster Note: In the current version of Sparkling Water running on YARN, the cluster formation requires multicast to work for the H2O nodes to find each oth...
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Running Your First Droplet on H2O
A number of us were at Strata in New York City this October, and one of the major benefits of these events is getting lots of in-person time with people who use your product.Michal and Amy spent some time with a developer who was trying to build on top of the h2o-dev repo, and we realized that we didn’t have a really basic example yet of ...
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Sparkling Water Tutorials
Please follow the updated version of tutorials here H2O is hosting a meetup tomorrow at our officewhere attendees are encourage to hack away with us as we run Deep Learning on Sparkling Water. If you haven’t already read allabout H2 O’s integration into Spark then get started withHow Sparkling Water Brings H2O to Spark and Sparkling W...
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How to use R, H2O, and Domino for a Kaggle competition
Guest post by Jo-Fai Chow The sample project (code and data) described below is available on Domino. If you’re in a hurry, feel free to skip to: Tutorial 1: Using Domino Tutorial 2: Using H2O to Predict Soil Properties Tutorial 3: Scaling up your analysis IntroductionThis blog post is the sequel to TTTAR1 a.k.a. An Introduction t...
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How Sparkling Water Brings H2O to Spark
This post provides a high-level introduction to the current integration plan between H2 O and Spark. This is an ongoing engineering effort involving collaboration between the open source teams, and describes what is currently underway.1. Overall ApproachThe first question one might ask is “Why”? What does one, as a user, gain from trying ...
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Sparkling Water!
H2O & Scala & SparkSpark is an up and coming new big data technology; it’s a whole lot faster andeasier than existing Hadoop-based solutions. H2 O does state-of-the-art MachineLearning algorithms over Big Data – and does them Fast. We are happy toannounce that H2 O now has a basic integration with Spark – Sparkling Water! This is...
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Introducing H2O Lagrange (2.6.0.11) to R
From my perspective the most important event that happened atuseR! 2014 was that I got to meetthe 0xdata team and now, long story short,here I am introducing the latest version of H2 O, labeledLagrange (2.6.0.11) ,to the R and greater data science communities. Beforejoining 0xdata, I was working at a competitor on a rival project and w...
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useR! 2014
Two weeks ago we attended the useR! conference hosted on the UCLA campus. I landed in Los Angeles at 8:30 P.M on Sunday June 29, and met up with Amy — another math hacker at 0xdata. After a harrowing cab ride we arrived on the UCLA campus at Sunset Village where we would be lodging for the next 3 evenings. Having just got the h2o R packag...
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Learn to manage, munge, and model big data with H2O on the Hortonworks Sandbox
Working with big data might seem like a daunting task if like me, you’ve spent the majority of your college years doing pencil and paper proofs. Big data for me was anything that took longer than 30 minutes to ingest into single threaded R. For mathematicians and statisticians looking to understand widely used data platforms like Hadoop f...
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H2O - The Killer-App on Spark
object AirlinesDemo extends Demo { override def run(conf: DemoConf): Unit = { // Prepare data // Dataset val dataset = “data/allyears2k_headers.csv” // Row parser val rowParser = AirlinesParser // Table name for SQL val tableName = “airlines_table” // Select all flights with destination == SFO val query = “””SELECT * FROM airlin...
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A K/V Store For In-Memory Analytics, Part 2
This is a continuation of a prior blog on the H2O K/V Store, Part 1. A quick review on key bits going into this next blog: H2O supports a very high performance in-memory Distributed K/V store The store honors the full Java Memory Model with exact consistency by default Keys can be cached locally for both reads & writes A typi...
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SJSU Tutorial on H2O and Random Forest
Our friends over at SJSU added this post to their course website after the H2O team stopped by earlier this semester to talk about H2O. We’ve reposted it here, but you can find the original at: http://sjsubigdata.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/oxdata-h2o-tutorial/ Oxdata (H2O) TutorialPosted on April 24, 2014 by bigsjsu Oxdata (H2O) Tutori...
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Tableau: Math Hacker Amy Talks Big Data Visualization TONIGHT
Anqi and I are back from NY, and we brought Amy with us – she's incredible, and she's giving a presentation at our meet up tonight, where she will talk about Big Data, visualization, and presenting interpretable graphics. So we're looking forward to seeing you tonight – the details are here:#meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix:after { visibility...
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MLConf NY - Friday, April 11: Demo of Workflow and Collective Use Case
This Friday H2O will be at MLconf (http://mlconf.com) to give a live demo, introduce a customer use case, and talk about the implications of model specification in production. If you don’t get a chance to stop by our booth, or come see our demo, you can find the presentation slides on the MLconf website (they will be posted on Friday, Apr...
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Google-scale Machine Learning & Deep Learning gets principal platform in Apache Mahout with Spark and H2O
H2O’s vision is direct and simple: scaling machine learning for powering intelligent applications. Our focus is distributed machine learning and a fully-featured set of industrial grade algorithms. Apache Mahout is where people learn their chops in Machine Learning. Like R, It’s the “hello world” first place many new users get exposed to ...
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Hang out with us tomorrow- Mar 26: H2O Math Hackers Present: Model Specification
Anqi and Irene present a hack along preview of their upcoming talk at MLConf. Come join us as we talk about the implications of model specification, and walk through how to frame models when asking different questions of the same data. #meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix:after { visibility: hidden; display: block; font-size: 0; content: " "; cl...
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Meetup TONIGHT - Arno Presents: Deep Learning: Theory and Practice!
If you were unable to join us on Thursday 3/21 because of the high volume of interest, we are offering the same meeting again!In this talk, Arno Candel, Physicist & Hacker at H2O.ai will breakdown the basics of deep learning in theory & present implementation, early results from using MLP with Adaptive learning as implemented in...
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In-memory Big Data: Spark + H2O
Big Data has moved in-memory. Customers using SQL in their Join & Munging efforts via SHARK and Apache Spark need to use Regressions and Deep Learning. To make their experiences great & seamlessly weave SQL workflows with Data Science and Machine Learning, we are architecting a simple RDD data import-export in H2O. This brings c...
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Data Munging in H2O+R
Over the weekend we fielded a question from one of our users about the basics of data munging in H2O through R – and it was a good question, so I wanted to share the response with a wider audience – namely you guys.There are a few quick things about data munging in H2O+R: – It often looks and feels like you are manipulating data in R; we...
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H2O Architecture
This is a top-level overview of the H2O architecture. H2O does in-memory analytics on clusters with distributed parallelized state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms . However, the platform is very generic, and very very fast. We’re building Machine Learning tools with it, because we think they’re cool and interesting, but the plat...
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H2O at Code Mesh - API for in-memory Analytics - Cliff
Video link here:API for in-Memory Analytics – CodeMesh ...
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Hanging out at ShareThis
http://www.sharethis.com/blog/2014/02/24/machine-learning-prediction-model-hack-thon-oxdata-h2o/#sthash.jn8gTPzQ.dpbs We spent some time with the engineers and data scientists at ShareThis last week, and had a great time learning about their use cases, and getting H2O running on their data. It's nice to know that the ShareThis team had ...
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Generate A Mandelbrot Set In H2O
Roses are red, Violets are ~ Blue, H2O is sweet, And fractals are too! $$z_n = z_{n-1}^P + c$$ Where c is a “candidate” complex number. (Typically you’ll see $$P = 2$$ — that’s what we’ll do too). We set the the size of the sequence to the number of iterations we want, and measure convergence by looking at the modulus of $$z_n$$ ...
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And you know, we're on each other's team - Lorde
Walking past giant anti-burner consumerist strata booths, i was struck by Lorde's recent masterpiece. The Big Data Palace needs a release. No hype, it needs product. Product is the release. The emperor has no clothes and no one seems to dare. You see the propaganda machine. Working lock-step to Strata / stage setters. Darling startups tha...
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A K/V Store For In-Memory Analytics: Part 1
0xdata.com is building in-memory analytics (no surprise, see 0xdata.com) . What may be a surprise, though, is that there’s a full-fledged high-performance Key/Value store built into H2O and that is central to both our data management and our control logic. We use the K/V store in two main ways: All the Big Data is stored striped acros...
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I'll let you be in my model, if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan* said that.User-centric modeling is here to stay. Rich insights are available when we combine, knowledge of the world with knowledge of your customer. Yes, one at a time. However, users tangle in a network of events and overlap & become part of each others models. Sensor data can avoid granularity mismatch by building models...
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Come visit H2O at Strata Booth 919
Greetings H2O friends and fans! Let’s do the data dance at Strata Santa Clara, Feb. 11-13 and check out our latest H2O Prediction Engine demo. We will be exhibiting at booth 919 and offering a 20% discount off registration. The show is slated to sell out, so be sure to register today and get your 20% discount with our code: 0XDATA20 ,...
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Hack data with our resident data scientist, Earl
This last thursday of every month event: Hack data with Earl Hathaway – our resident data scientist.#meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix:after { visibility: hidden; display: block; font-size: 0; content: " "; clear: both; height: 0; }* html #meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix, *:first-child+html #meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix { zoom: 1; }#meetup_oembed { bac...
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