Unsupervised learning from user behaviour When a user navigates a site they leave a valuable trail of information - what their first search was, what they followed this search with, and so on. Using this data we can learn related searches automatically by co-occurrence counting. This post takes you through the steps to …

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Elastic Sparkle If you work in the Hadoop world and have not yet heard of Spark, drop everything and go check it out. It’s a really powerful, intuitive and fast map/reduce system (and some). Where it beats Hadoop/Pig/Hive hands down is it’s not a massive stack of quirky DSLs built on top of layers of clunky …

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