Month: October 2014
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3 Great Data Science Books You Can Read Now…for free
Just this week, I have become aware of 3 free online books for data science. Data Visualization with Javascript If you are looking for a tutorial to teach you how to make wonderful visualizations on the web, look no further. Data Visualization with JavaScript is a free online book for learning data visualization with Javascript.…
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Strata + Hadoop World 2014 Videos
John Rauser from Pinterest gives one of the more popular talks from the Recent Strata Conference + Hadoop World. The following quote from his talk might peak your interest enough to get you to watch the entire video. Remember, he is speaking to a room with some of the leading data scientists in the world.…
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Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine with SQL interface and OLAP on Hadoop by eBay – Kylin
Very promising open-source BI tool for use with Hadoop.
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Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
Once again, Hans tells a great story with data.
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Data Sources for Cool Data Science Projects: Part 2 – Guest Post
I am excited for the first ever guest posts on the Data Science 101 blog. Dr. Michael Li, Executive Director of The Data Incubator in New York City, is providing 2 great posts (see Part 1) about finding data for your next data science project. At The Data Incubator, we run a free six week…
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Data Sources for Cool Data Science Projects: Part 1 – Guest Post
I am excited for the first ever guest posts on the Data Science 101 blog. Dr. Michael Li, Executive Director of The Data Incubator in New York City, is providing 2 great posts (see Part 2) about finding data for your next data science project. At The Data Incubator, we run a free six week…
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New Coursera Specializations for Data Scientists
Coursera just launched 18 new specializations. Not all of them are relevant to data science, but here are 3 of the specializations that pertain to data science. Data Mining from the University of Illinois Cloud Computing from the University of Illinois Healthcare Informatics & Data Analytics from Georgia Tech All of these specializations will provide…
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Strata/Hadoop World 2014 Live Stream Starting Soon
Strata + Hadoop World 2014 is currently going on in New York City this week. Some of the keynotes will be live streamed this morning. The live streaming starts at 8:45 Eastern Standard Time. Also, keynotes will be live streamed tomorrow (Oct. 17, 2014) as well. The keynotes are always great, and the line-up this…
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Data Science Bootcamps
The list of Data Science Bootcamps is now live at http://datascience.community/bootcamps The list currently contains 11 programs. The programs range from full-time 12 week programs to part-time online training. Data Science is one field that has definitely adopted the newer, innovative forms of learning. MOOCs are full of data science related courses and the List…
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What is a Data Hackathon like?
Here is a video of the final presentations of a data hackathon. You can watch the pitches, questions, and winners. If you are considering attending a data hackathon, this video should give you a good idea of what to expect at the end of a hackathon. This video comes from the Critical Data Marathon held…
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Process Mining Course via Coursera
Process mining is a bridge between data mining and business process modeling. Process Mining can be used to study event and log files to extract meaning. The Coursera course, Process Mining: Data science in Action, starts November 12, 2014.
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Foundations of Data Analysis on EdX
EdX will be offering Foundations of Data Analysis via the University of Texas at Austin. The course starts November 4, 2014. Here is a list of topics: Tutorials on using R Descriptive Statistics Statistical Models (Regression) Inferential Stats