Los Angeles Hadoop Users Group LA-HUG March 16th

[Jody Mulkey]

Meetup: Los Angeles Hadoop Users Group- LA-HUG

Speaker: Ted Dunning from the Mahout project: Cool tricks with classifiers  When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Where: Shopzilla 12200 Olympic Blvd, 4th floor  Los Angeles, CA 90064 http://bit.ly/LA-HUG-Ted-Dunning-Mahout Meetup agenda: A tour of recent and upcoming developments with classifiers in Mahout with particular attention to how they can be creatively misused for interesting applications. Specifically, Ted will provide a tour of the hashed vector encoding utilities and the stochastic gradient descent learning framework.  Ted will describe how evolutionary programming and per-term annealing combine to give very impressive learning performance on large sparse problems.  Latent-factor log-linear models are coming before too long in the same framework.  Depending on time and level of interest, Ted will demonstrate how a classification farm can be built out of things you have around the house. Ted Dunning is a core commiter on the Apache Mahout project and co-author of Mahout In Action (http://bit.ly/MahoutInAction) Get 35% off all Manning.com publications by using the coupon code newmeap35 Free pizza, drinks and parking will be provided

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310-903-4194  Thanks for for helping get the word out about this. --Jody

Jody Mulkey

CIO, Shopzilla Inc.

Twitter @jodymulkey