Manish Barnwal

...just another human

Shell commands come in handy for a data scientist

I am no expert of shell commands. I have been using them for quite some time and thought I give an attempt to list down the most common commands. I am writing these mostly from the perspective of a data-science guy. Let us get started.

I will use the file- ...

ROC and AUC - The three lettered acronyms

I don't feel bad to confess this that ROC curve, AUC, True-positive and related terms took quite some time for me to understand. If today I contemplate on the reasons why I found this topic confusing. The first would be there are not many resources that explains intuitively what ...

Vim/Vi editor shortcuts

Repetitive tasks should be done using as many shortcuts as possible. You are not doing anything new and hence not even an extra minute should be spent on doing the same. This post refers to the shortcuts that come in handy when working on the vi/vim editor.

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Hadoop Streaming

A few days ago, I had written a post on The Big Data Problem which attempted to understand why we need big data and what the fuss is all about. You may want to read it here.

Having understood why we need big data, let’s understand how we can ...