Big Data Machine Learning with H2O May 29, 2015 a years ago SriSatish Ambati gave a talk at the Chicago Big Data meetup about how to use H 2 O to do machine learning on big data. SriSatish is founder and CEO of a startup called 0xdata (pronounced "hexadata"). 0xdata developed H 2 O, an open-source machine learning tool. ( Github .) H 2 O has a number of powerful machine learning algorithms that it can run. What makes H 2 O different from R and other programs is that H 2 O has really good performance and can handle huge amounts of data. It splits up the algorithm and data into little chunks and processes them in parallel over many machines in a cluster. Netflix is using H 2 O to do some of their machine learning . Netflix is one of the pioneers of big data machine learning, and I look forward to hear more about how they're using H 2 O. You can run H 2 O against data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). You can also upload data direc