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layout: post
title:  "Weekly Meeting 10/18/2016"
description: Weekly Meeting 10/18/2016
date:   2016-10-18 00:00:00 -0000
categories: meeting, weekly, machine learning, oracle, competition
excerpt: Team member Nehal Kamat gave a short tutorial on how to run a simple model on our Oracle data with Vowpal Wabbit, and Team Captain Pedro Rodriguez showed some Apache Spark code useful in dealing with large amounts of those data.
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## Agenda

* Team member Nehal Kamat gave us a short overview on how to effectively visualize and model the data using matplotlib and Vowpal Wabbit, respectively. His slides are included below, and you can find the interactive binder he prepared [here](http://mybinder.org/repo/neka7449/odc-challenge).
* Team Captain [Pedro Rodriguez](https://pedrorodriguez.io) gave the team some pointers on working with the Oracle data using Spark, a high-volume data processing library with Python bindings.

#### Slides

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Add 10.18.2016 weekly meeting notes and agenda
Add 10.18.2016 weekly meeting notes and agenda
