At most companies, advanced analytics expertise is contained in a lab environment: a small team of analysts sitting at their computers and churning out reports and insights to support business decisions. But the real potential for advanced analytics lies in building models that make real-time decisions within production workflows.
The recent Data Day Texas 2014 featured a session given by Josh Wills, Cloudera’s Senior Director of Data Science: “From The Lab To The Factory: Building A Production Machine Learning Infrastructure.” Josh discusses how to use the ecosystem of technologies around Hadoop to support bringing models out of the lab and into the factory, with a focus on strategies for data integration, large-scale machine learning, and experimentation.
The slides from Josh’s talk are available HERE.