That’s right, Criteo R&D is on its way to NYC for Hadoop World 2014 and is bringing its Mo PB Mo Problems World Tour with it! No, this isn’t a PR / marketing campaign to tell the world...
We have launched a Kaggle challenge on CTR prediction 3 months ago. Large participation, close race … …and the winner will officially be announced next week! Some updates on the contest have been presented at the Paris Machine Learning Meetup....
There has been a lot of effort by technology companies in the last few years to harness the power of clusters to process their large training sets. This move was made particularly important with the success of deep...
Assume you have a code base in C# and you want to run it in a distributed way on Hadoop. What do you do: rewrite your historic code base in Java? Or try to forget the lesson you...
Last month we released our new fully scalable & distributed learning infrastructure called PoH (Prediction on Hadoop), enabling us to train our prediction models on very large amount of data and providing more accurate predictions. Have a look...
We are committed at Criteo to scientific excellence. And one of the cornerstone of scientific progress is the reproducibility of experimental results. We thus decided to publicly release the datasets used in our forthcoming papers. And the first...
One possible way was to qualify to the TopCoder Open onsite final, San Francisco, Nov 2014. Let me explain how I managed to take one of the last four places of the last qualification Marathon Match round. TopCoder...
We have launched two weeks ago an exciting challenge on the Kaggle platform. We provided one week of anonymized data and the goal is very, very easy : prove that you rock in CTR prediction! I am pleased to...
If you want the very precise downtime dates (in CET), here there you go! A thoughts and wishes obviously go to the desperate engineers and ops who might have lived extremely stressful 35 minutes. Share on FacebookShare on...
About a year ago I attended the Paris Hadoop Users Group (HUG) to listen to Marcel Kornacker discuss Impala, Cloudera’s version of Dremel and along with it a new HDFS file format, Parquet. The talk was great–Impala promised...
