Wednesday, January 8, 2014

ScaleGraph: a new graph processing system

I got this from Prof. Toyotaro Suzumura from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.  ScaleGraph is a graph processing system written using X10 distributed programming language. ScaleGraph is open source software using Eclipse License.

From their website: "Recently large-scale graphs with billions of vertices and edges have emerged in a variety of domains and disciplines especially in the forms of social networks, web link graphs, internet topology graphs, etc. Mining these graphs to discover hidden knowledge requires particular middleware and software libraries that can harness the full potential of large-scale computing infrastructures such as super computers. ScaleGraph is a graph library based on the highly productive X10 programming language. The goal of ScaleGraph is to provide large-scale graph analysis algorithms and efficient distributed computing framework for graph analysts and for algorithm developers, respectively."

I have invited ScaleGraph to present at our 3rd GraphLab conference.

Registration for the 3rd GraphLab Conference is open!


Join us for a full day of the latest and greatest applied machine learning and big data analytics!
Monday July 21, 2014 at the Nikko Hotel SF. Confirmed speakers (very preliminary list): GraphLab, Google, Trifacta, Datapad, Databricks (Spark), Pandora Internet Radio, Cloudera.  Confirmed demos: QuantiFind, bigML, Skytree, YarcData, Saffrom Technology, Franz.

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

GraphLab Tutorial @ Strata

Only 2 days left for early bird discount for Strata Santa Clara Tutorials registration (deadline: January 9). We are going to have a 3 hour long machine learning with GraphLab tutorial, given by GraphLab CEO, Prof. Carlos Guestrin.

Additional good news, I have just received discount code for my blog readers from Ben Lorica, our main at O'Reilly Media. Discount code is: DATO20 - for getting 20% discount.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Plotly - a nice visualization package in Python

Got this from my colleague Chris Dubois: a Python Plotly tutorial with some examples. The graphs are interactive, you can zoom in/out, mouse select etc.

Here is one example plot (just a screen capture):

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Reverse engineering Netflix customized categories

I got this blog post from my colleague Eric Wolfe: "How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood". A very comprehensive (and slightly tedious ) study of how to customized genres are created by Netflix.

A startup called Quantifind has taken this construction a step further, and now predicts a future success of a movie based on the customized genre.  I hear they are working with some of the largest studios.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Do you like robots?

Got this nice illustration for Elly Brown, from http://bestcomputersciencedegrees.com

Artificial Intelligence
Source: BestComputerScienceDegrees.com

Thursday, January 2, 2014

SIMR - Spark on top of Hadoop

Just learned from my collaborator Aapo Kyrola that the Spark team have now released a plugin which allows running Spark on top of Hadoop, without installation anything and without administrator privileges. This will probably encourage many more companies to try out Spark, which significantly improves on Hadoop performance.

Another related link, from my colleague Chris Dubois, shows that Cloudera is backing up  Spark.