Recommender Systems Workshops - Looking for Speakers!

Only a week left for submitting an abstract proposal for the
3rd Large Scale Recommender Systems Workshop and the
2nd TV Recommendation Workshop
which are part of ACM Recsys 2015 Conference. both workshops will take place mid Sept in Vienna.
Ping me if you like to submit an abstract!

Beautiful LDA Visualization

We got a beautiful LDA visualization contribution, a package called pyLDAvis.  The package is created by Ben Mabey, one of the loyal & veteran GraphLab users. Here is the link to the detailed example. Everything is interactive!

AirBNB releases Aerosolve

I got this from my friend & colleague Micky Fire: AirBNB is releasing an open source ML package called Aerosolve. The package has emphasis on geographical support. Here is an example KD-Tree model of SF:

New Kaggle Competition: Cross Device Detection

Kaggle just announced a new competition, for identifying users who surf the web from multiple devices. The competition is sponsored by Drawbridge.

Interestingly our customer Crosswise is doing exactly that. Here is a video of Amit Moran's talk from our latest annual conference. Another company in the same domain is Tapad.