Hacker Dojo offering Machine Learning/ Big Data / Map Reduce course

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For those of you interested, Hacker Dojo is offering a machine learning on Big Data / map reduce course.

This is from the course description

Participants will learn to adapt and execute machine learning algorithms in the map reduce framework. Participants should finish the class able to author their own machine learning algorithms for map reduce and to run them on Amazon Web Services. Amazon is providing AWS credits for class participants.

Participants will learn to use python code to author mappers and reducers for “hadoop-streaming”. For most of the class we will employ “mrjob” - an open-source framework developed at Yelp. Employing mrjob enables class members to program mappers and reducers in python. The mrjob framework then submits the mapper-reducer to run locally without using hadoop, to run on Amazon Web Services, or to run them on a private hadoop cluster. This will simplify the programming tasks.

For more details visit http://machinelearningbigdata.eventbrite.com/
For folks not living close to the Bay Area, there is a teleconference option

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The lessons will run for 4 hours / week for five weeks