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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Logging to Logentries & InsightOps from Python

[Short version] The S3 ingestion script for Amazon applications provided by Logentries will not work for the gzip compressed log files produced by the Elastic Beanstalk log rotation system. A slightly edited script will work instead and can be found on Github here.[/Short Version] Logentries is a brilliant startup originating here in Dublin for collecting and …

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Self-Organising Maps for Customer Segmentation using R

Self-Organising Maps Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) are an unsupervised data visualisation technique that can be used to visualise high-dimensional data sets in lower (typically 2) dimensional representations. In this post, we examine the use of R to create a SOM for customer segmentation. The figures shown here used use the 2011 Irish Census information for the …

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