Monthly Archives: October 2016

Recommender Systems （Notes from Mining of Massive Datasets ）

Posted on October 12, 2016 by faye1010

What is Recommender Systems (RS)? It is a subclass of information filtering systems that are meant to predict the preferences or ratings that a user would give to a product. Recommender systems are widely used in movies, news, research articles, … Continue reading →

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Classification

Posted on October 12, 2016 by faye1010

There are many classifiers to predict a qualitative response (categorical): logistic regression, linear discriminant analysis, KNN, trees, random forests, boosting support vector machines and so on.   Why classification? (1)When it is binary qualitative response, we can code the two … Continue reading →

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Resources for learning SQL

Posted on October 9, 2016 by faye1010

SQL is a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. There are many resources online to learn SQL. I will list some of them, which are useful in learning SQL. 1.Coursera  Managing Big Data with MySQL by Duke University.  This is … Continue reading →

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