I recently started playing with Hadoop recently, as reflected in my recent posts. In the process, I spent a significant amount of time setting up a Hadoop cluster made of three physical servers I have screaming in my bathroom. The process took a lot of trial and error and reaching out for help in Hadoop’s … Read more
I was looking for a mobile work laptop last week. After weighing all my options, I ordered a Lenovo Thinkpad X270 and I’ve been testing it for 48 hours at the time of this writing! In this article, I’ll go through why I chose X270 as my next mobile workstation and my experience on using … Read more
I recently started playing with neural nets via TensorFlow. It’s a big departure to my reinforcement learning background. But I must say, the learning is usually the other way around for most people. That is, they first learn neural nets, then reinforcement learning. That being said, many concepts overlap. One of the many things that … Read more
If you have a server that is part of the Hadoop cluster, then you probably want your Hadoop daemons to run at startup. If you have done some Linux system administration, then you have probably encounter systemctl command here and there. This command is part of the Systemd, used for bootstrapping and managing system processes. … Read more
I recently started playing with Hadoop to learn some data analysis. To make it more fun, I decided to fiddle with F1 datasets, specifically the Constructor And Overall Race Results. In this post, I’ll describe the three main process involved in this task. The preparation of data, followed by the two map reduce task, mapping … Read more
I’ve been following Formula 1 for 5 years now. Might seem like a lot, but considering Formula 1’s first race was in the 1950s, I barely scraped the surface in terms of know it. This is why I decided to write these series of F1 Data Analysis blogs, to get to know the sports more. And … Read more