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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Evaluating a Predictive Model
We often try to correlate our data with various consumer behaviors, such as paying back loans or completing a transaction. To do this we produce models that emit the probability of the person doing the behavior. In this post, I’ll describe a technique we use for evaluating the performance of our predictive models.
There are two [...]
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Cascading & Clojure SF Meetup
I’m happy to announce that Rapleaf will be hosting a Cascading + Clojure Meetup in San Francisco, CA on September 24th. At this meetup, we’ll cover some real world uses cases of Cascading and Clojure and provide information on how these technologies are progressing. Here is what we have in store:
Bradford Cross from [...]
Batch Querying with Cascading