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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.… Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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. Read more
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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 Read more
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Data Scientist’s Guide to Startups – Round Table Discussion
This discussion was held at the KDD 2013 Conference in Chicago. The title says it all. Here is the full discussion. A Data Scientist’s Guide to Start-Ups The following people were involved in the discussion. Foster Provost – Professor at NYU Geoffrey I. Webb – Research Professor at Monash University Ron Bekkerman – Assistant Professor… Read more
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