by Robin Meehan | May 26, 2017 | Machine Learning
The excellent KDNuggets site has recently published its latest survey of data science tool usage, and as always it’s interesting reading. This is the 17th year (!) so it’s a great way to look at trends. I won’t repeat all their analysis or results... 
by Robin Meehan | May 22, 2017 | Machine Learning
So what’s the hardest part of data science? Mmm – well, hyper-parameter tuning can be a bit tricky. Algorithm selection for best results can be a bit of an art as well as a science. Feature extraction and selection is a real skill and probably makes a... 
by Robin Meehan | May 16, 2017 | IoT, Streaming
In our RAMP platform architecture, one challenge we’ve had to address is how to simulate the injection of streaming data. We need this for demonstration purposes, but also to simulate load, test monitoring and alerting etc. Our solution uses AWS Lambda to pull...