Far Beyond Data A music recommender - making sense of 24 million user plays from 1.6 million unique artists using Apache Spark.
Data science, two words which even the initiated have trouble with explaining to the layperson. There's an old saying that if you can't explain it to your grandmother, you probably do not understand it well enough. That stands very true, especially today in 2016, given the complexities that more often than not plague most intellectual endeavors. Personally my favorite go-to line when I'm on the receiving end is - Please explain to me as you might to a child, or a ...
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