Big data: Statistical and computational challenges and opportunities

ABSTRACT: I will review several successful consumer products and argue that huge datasets played a central role in their construction. Among these products, I will describe Zite, a personalized magazine built by my team and acquired by CNN, which uses massive classifiers to label nearly a billion documents and personalize content for millions of users. … Continue reading Big data: Statistical and computational challenges and opportunities

Yann LeCun and John Langford Co-Teaching New Course: “Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data”

Currently during the Spring 2013 semester, Yann LeCun, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and John Langford, Doctor of Learning at Microsoft Research, are co-teaching a new course entitled “Big Data, Large Scale Machine Learning.” “It’s great to have John on board because he has considerable practical … Continue reading Yann LeCun and John Langford Co-Teaching New Course: “Large-Scale Machine Learning and Big Data”