NYPD Crime #7 – Data Exploration (Part II – Data Cleansing)

Intro In the last post, we wanted to dive into data exploration, but got caught up looking at the basic workflow of simple Spark processes. In fact, we really did no exploration whatsoever other than look at the top 10 rows of the data set haha. It’s okay though, that deeper dive was necessary and […]

All-NBA Predict #11 – Exploration of Historical NBA Players (Part III, Principal Components Analysis)

From my last post: In the next post, I’ll try to throw Principal Components Analysis at the problem because… well basically more or less because I want to learn it regardless of whether it applies here or not! Do I need more of an intro? Let’s go! (This has more or less become my favourite […]