Caution! Math Ahead! For the Math-phobic, I explain how I crunch the test results in a math-free, simple and focused blog post here. I use math here, so this may be your last chance to escape! Still with me? Excellent! The bullets below outline...
Do you have big data chops? Quick, what do these three things have in common? Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks What about these? Beatles, Monkees, Beach Boys Do you have an answer for each? "New York," for example, for the first list and "Rock...
Why do we need yet another personality test? Because, without "big data" technologies online "personality tests" suffer these problems: With most tests, we quickly see a pattern to the answers, and can easily steer the test to the outcome we want...
Welcome to the fifth part of this HOWTO, where we will call a remote web service to locate our test takers. Once you complete this HOWTO, you will have implemented the following architecture: To recap what we’ve done so far: Part One: Deploy an...
For my (post) masters project on machine learning and big data infrastructure I thought it would be fun to acquire my own data set. Last semester I traded available services and architected a scalable (big data) Internet facing survey...