Apache Spark comes with a set of machine learning samples. One of those sample is a movie recommendation system which makes personalized recommendations based on a technique called Collaborative Fi...

As I’m trying to learn more about machine learning I spent some time to look for data that I can use. While GitHub is the place to get open source code, there doesn’t seem to be a counterpart for o...

I’m fascinated by the power of machine learning and I’m trying to learn more about this technology. I’ve started to look into how to use the machine learning library in Spark. The Spark documentat...

IBM Bluemix provides a service Predictive Analytics which developers and data scientists can use to build applications that help users to make predictions about the future for different scenarios. ...

Update November 2016: The dialog service has been deprecated and replaced with the Conversation service. I’ve open sourced a simple sample of a chatbot for Facebook that leverages IBM Watson Dialo...

In order to learn new technologies I often watch webinars and videos. For Bluemix there pretty good technical webinars with great speakers, mostly from the development teams. Unfortunately they are...

Serverless Computing is often useful in event-driven Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. For example when IoT sensors exceed a certain temperature actions are invoked to fix the issue. OpenWhisk i...

Serverless Computing is a relative new technology which allows developers to build event driven code which scales and for which you only pay the time it’s running. OpenWhisk is IBM’s serverless com...

For the development of Internet of Things applications it’s often useful to simulate devices. Below are two options which are easy to use. The instructions describe how to connect to the IBM Watso...

OpenWhisk is an event-driven compute platform that executes code in response to events or direct invocations. The advantage is that you only have to pay for actual usage, not for peaked projections...