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Modern scientific computing and big data analytics in Python

Talkat PyCon Australia 2013 · 2013-07-05..07-07· [machine-learning, python]
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Shows how to apply Python 3 tools to scientific and engineering problems, especially big-data use cases, using real-world datasets. Covers scikit-learn (machine learning), scikit-image (image processing), Pandas (data analysis) and IPython-parallel for parallel computation.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:24PART I: BIG DATA
  3. 9:57SCALING
  4. 11:53MAPREDUCE "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters". Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Usenix 2004
  5. 13:50BEYOND MAPREDUCE? + PySpark bindings
  6. 14:41PART 2: TOOLS
  7. 15:01DENOISING removal of noise from the data
  8. 15:34INTERPOLATION recovery of missing values
  9. 16:09SIGNAL PROCESSING eg image super-resolution. See
  10. 17:25PREDICTION extrapolating data
  11. 17:49CLUSTERING unsupervised learning
  12. 18:07CLUSTERING + PREDICTION sklearn example
  13. 19:04SUPERVISED LEARNING PHASE Landsat satellite image data
  14. 19:47COMPRESSION reducing storage and bandwidth requirements
  15. 25:56"BIG CPU" PROBLEMS traditional "hard" problems in scientific computing
  16. 26:11320X CHEAPER The cost of one EC2 CPU core vs your time
  17. 29:02WHAT GIL? BLAS libraries can use all cores
  18. 33:45PYTHON:TRAFFIC ANALYSIS 57 github.io/blog/2013/06/19/real-time-traffic.data
  19. 41:13PART 3: EXAMPLES
  20. 41:52LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGERY North Carolina
  21. 42:48CHOOSE A RANDOM PORT
  22. 47:26LOG IN WITH HTTPS:// with your randomly generated port
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