Ryan Swanstrom

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  • Data Science Colleges by US State

    Creating the Awesome Data Science Colleges List has opened the data for some analysis. The above chart shows the states with the most data science programs based upon the total number of colleges in the state (dark red is best, followed by orange, followed by yellow, and finally black is for states with no data… Read more

  • Awesome Data Science Colleges List

    I recently compiled a huge list of colleges and universities with data science-related degree programs. The compiled list is available on Github as Awesome Data Science Colleges. I encourage you to contribute to the list if you know of missing programs. Read more

  • Free Data Science Book for Ordinary People

    A great read for people without an extensive math, statistics or computer science background. And still an interesting read for those people. The book includes tons of non-technical descriptions for data science terms. You can download a copy of the book on SlideShare, or you can purchase a paperback copy via Lulu. Read more

  • $200,000 Cognitive Computing Challenge

    HeroX, an organization that runs competitions for big ideas, has recently launched a competition that is relevant to the data science community. It is called the Cognitive Computing Challenge The challenge sounds fairly simple. Build a cognitive system that can read a document, then load a database with what it finds. However, don’t be fooled… Read more

  • A Guide for Doing Data Science for Good via DataLook

    A Guide for Doing Data Science for Good via DataLook The guide provides some excellent tips on how to get involved. Read more

  • Yinyang K-Means: A Drop-In Replacement of the Classic K-Means

    This week; Yufei Ding, Yue Zhao, Xipeng Shen, Madanlal Musuvathi, and Todd Mytkowicz will be presenting Yinyang K-means at the 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning. The algorithm guarantees the same results as traditional K-means, but it produces results with an order of magnitude higher performance. An abstract of the paper and a PDF download… Read more

  • Building an Analytics Team at 500px – Helpful Advice

    Organizations everywhere are racing to build analytics/data science teams. Big Data is everywhere and companies don’t want to fall behind. Unfortunately, many organizations are struggling to get started because of questions similar to the following: How will Analytics help us? What does an analytics team look like in our organization? How do we start? Luckily,… Read more

  • Free Big Data Virtual Meetup

    The First Virtual Expo for the Big Data Community What: Big Data eMeetup, an online conference with speakers, vendors, and attendees. All in an interactive game-like setting. When: July 23, 2015, all day Where: Online, http://www.bigdataemeetup.com Cost: Free I believe this is a promising, low cost, and fun way to host a meetup. Please join… Read more

  • 7 Tools for Data Visualization in R, Python, and Julia

    7 Tools for Data Visualization in R, Python, and Julia Read more

  • The Problem with Software Analytics

    The Problem with Software Analytics – Why isn’t the research getting into the hands of practitioners? Read more

  • Machine Learning to Play Super Mario

    A fun video to watch. Very Impressive! The technique uses a genetic algorithm to training a neural network. A paper with more details can be found at, Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) Read more

  • Model-based Machine Learning, Free Early Access Book

    Model-based Machine Learning, Free Early Access Book Read more

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