Neural networks for graphs

I met at Thomas Kipf from University of Amsterdam at NIPS 2016 and he pointed out some interesting blog post he wrote regarding neural networks for graph analytics.

A new machine learning podcast

A new machine earning podcast by Sam Charrington. It tracks down the weekly machine learning news and summarizes the major events. Highly recommended!

4th Large Scale Recommender Systems workshop - deadline extended

We have extended the deadline of our Large Scale Recommender Systems workshop to June 30. This is the 4th year we are organizing this workshop as part of ACM Recsys 2016. Anyone with novel work in the area of applied recommender systems is welcome to submit a talk proposal.

GraphLab Create healthcare use case

A nice blog post from Mark Pinches, our Manchester evangelist who is working with John Snow  Labs. It shows how to use GraphLab Create for slicing, dicing and aggregations of healthcare data.

Novomatic - comparing spark, pandas and Dato

Interesting slides from Bogdan Pirvu head data science @ Novomatic (Austrian Gaming Industries). I met Bogdan at RecSys Vienna last fall and he got interested in GraphLab Create. In his talk Bogdan compares pandas, Spark and Graphlab Create. Guess who is the winner?

Prof. Alex Smola moves to Amazon

Here is the note he wrote on his blog. Alex will be heading Amazon Cloud ML effort. Definitely a great win for Amazon!

If you like to hear Alex speaking about his recent research you should attend our Data Science Summit July 12-13 in SF. You are welcome to use discount code DSSfriend.

RSA fraud in social media report

An interesting report from RSA is found here. A lot of cool visualizations of social communities of fraudsters.