Data into results

In the age of big data, predictive analytics is all around us. Probably you have heard about the Netflix Prize, awarding  US$1,000,000 to anyone capable of beating their recommendation engine by 10%. The winning algorithm was based on the the combination of many classifiers. Assessing and Improving Prediction and Classification basically explains you how to built an even better algorithm. It is specialized in the classifier assessment and how to combine many classifiers (or train many versions of it).

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