Category Archives: Redis

Making Recommendations in Real Time

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Pranab

Making recommendations based on an user’s current behavior in a small time window is a powerful feature that has been added to sifarish recently. In this post I will go over the details of this feature. The real time feature … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Collaborative Filtering, Data Mining, Data Science, Hadoop and Map Reduce, Real Time Processing, Recommendation Engine, Redis, Storm | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Boost Lead Generation with Online Reinforcement Learning

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Pranab

When I go to a web site for for downloading white paper or product data sheet,  I often  hit the back button if presented with a form asking for lots of personal data. Any user that bounces out, is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Data Science, Real Time Processing, Redis, Reinforcement Learning, Storm | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Real Time Fraud Detection with Sequence Mining

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Pranab

Real time fraud detection  is one of the use cases, where multiple components of the Big Data eco system come into play in a significant way, Hadoop batch processing  for building the predictive model and Storm for predicting fraud from … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Fraud Detection, Hadoop and Map Reduce, Redis, Storm | Tagged , , , | 27 Comments

Redis as Messaging Middleware

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Pranab

I needed a simple middleware for fluxua, my Hadoop workflow engine project on github. In fluxua, you define a set of Hadoop jobs running as an workflow. The dependency between the jobs is represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). … Continue reading →

Posted in Key Value Store, Messaging, Redis | Tagged , | 3 Comments