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Yahoo Just Released a Huge Machine Learning Dataset
Yahoo just released a 1.5 TB dataset of “anonymized user interactions on the news feeds”. If you have been looking for a new dataset to analyze, this just might be it. It contains approximately 110 billion rows of data regarding user-news interactions. Happy data exploring! Read more
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The Most Popular Skills and Degrees of Today’s Data Scientists
Today, we are lucky to have Daniel Levine of RJMetrics provide a guest post. RJMetrics created an extensive report detailing The State of Data Science. I asked Daniel to provide some results as they relate to the current education of data scientists. Recently, RJMetrics released a benchmark report that looked to answer many of the… Read more
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Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada 2016
Early next year (February 2016 to be exact), Canada’s first Cross-Industry Big Data Summit will be held in Toronto. The speaker lineup looks strong with presenters from Twitter, Rogers, Boeing and more. Also, the conference contains both a technical and a business track. When: February 17th & 18th 2016 Where: Sheraton Centre Toronto More Info:… Read more
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The Data Science Industry: Who Does What
The fine folks at DataCamp, a great site for learning data science right in your browser, have come up with another great infographic. This time it compares some of the many job titles in the data science field. The infographic lays out the roles and skills needed for the following job titles. Note: not all… Read more
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Want a Quick Jupyter Notebook?
If you have been hearing about Jupyter (formerly iPython) and have not tried it out, here are a couple quick, free, and easy options for giving it a try. No installation need, and no account setup. Just visit a link. Easy Jupyter Notebook Try Jupyter and tmpnb are two projects for instantly getting a jupyter… Read more
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Dat – Version Controlled Data
Dat is an open source project focusing on data storage. In particular, the project wants to version control data. What is version control? In short it allows for tracking of history associated with something (typically source code files or documents). Dat takes the idea a bit further, and the data is versioned at the row… Read more
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Building a Data Science Capability from Booz Allen
Tips for Building a Data Science Capability (PDF) – some excellent tips to help create a data-driven organization While you are already visiting the Booz Allen website, a few years back they published a great resource title: The Field Guide to Data Science. Read more
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An executive’s guide to machine learning | McKinsey & Company
via An executive’s guide to machine learning | McKinsey & Company. A nice read if you are looking for a short introduction to the history and importance of machine learning. Read more
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Analytics vs Data Science
The lines between analytics and data science can definitely be very blurry. Different companies might call the same position by two different names, but at their core, they do have some differences. Below is an infographic from the faculty of the Online MS in Analytics at American University. I think the infographic is accurate. In… Read more
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Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Free Book Download)
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University, Israel, and Shai Ben-David, Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The book looks very thorough. Below is just a sampling of the topics covered.… Read more
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Software Engineering Podcasts for Data Science
If you are a former software engineer looking to gain some data science skills, here are a list of podcasts that will most likely interest you. Software Engineering Daily A nice podcast which just ran a series of podcasts about data science. Data Science Overview with Yad Faeq Applied Data Science with Edwin Chen Kaggle… Read more
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Statistics for Hackers Slides by Jake VanderPlas
Jake provides an excellent slidedeck about using programming simulation to do statistics. Lots of great information packed into these slides. Slides are available at Statistics for Hackers on SpeakerDeck Read more
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