Source: https://bigml.com/features
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Bringing Machine Learning to the Masses
There is a movement to bring big data analytics to companies
with less knowledgeable user base and improve the ease for more technical
users. BigML is leading the charge on this with a completely graphical and web
based interface to apply machine learning to large datasets. BigML’s major
selling point though is the lowered bar of entry. To run machine learning on a
dataset of one GB and produce an actionable predictive model it will cost
around $50. This may seem like a significant amount when compared to doing
machine learning on your own, but the real way that BigML is lowering the bar
to entry is by decreasing the amount of knowledge required to make these
models. There is no programming done by the users, just running through a
graphical interface. The site assists with basic analysis, and provides a blog
in which they provide tutorials and discuss more in-depth use cases and
analysis methods. BigML also provides an open API and multiple open source
bindings for popular programming languages for more advanced users and very
detailed documentation and starting guides for those that wish to become
advanced users.
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Very cool site. The UI and tools the site provides are very intuitive and easy to use. Great recommendation.
ReplyDeleteResources like this are going to be a wave of the future. As people become more accustomed with the idea of big data and doing basic analysis, there will be more companies appearing that give customers a fairly insightful analysis of their data as well as some tools to develop on their own.
I especially love how they will let you download data sets for free. That's awesome. I think the sharing of massive sets of data, like a data library, is also something that could spawn from sites like this.