data, ML: GraphLab & Dato

The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast:
The evolution of GraphLab - O'Reilly Radar
"Carlos Guestrin on the early days of GraphLab and the evolution of GraphLab Create."

...chat with Carlos Guestrin, co-founder/CEO of Dato, a start-up launched by the creators of GraphLab.

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Many of the machine learning projects and start-ups I interact with find initial traction in automatic recommender systems. GraphLab is no exception.

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GraphLab’s tabular data structure (SFrames) ... caught the attention of many attendees... particularly Pydata users. With an API similar to Pandas, and a growing library of algorithms that are as easy to use

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there are other emerging frameworks — like Apache Spark — that are targeting Pydata users

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