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Zipfian Academy Launches New Fellowship and Data Engineering Programs
Zipfian Academy, the company that offers the 12-week immersive training for data science, has just announced 2 new programs. Data Fellows 6-Week Fellowship – A free and intensive program to fill in your knowledge gaps and match you up with a top company. Hurry, applications are due today (June 16, 2014). Data Engineering 12-Week Immersive… Read more
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School of Data Science Launched by Persontyle
Recently, Persontyle launched their School of Data Science. The goal is to produce data science training and education for professionals. Here is a brief list of the type of programs being offered. Data Science/Machine Learning Courses Hadoop Training On-site Corporate Training 6 week Bootcamp for PhD graduates Fellows program for using data science for social… Read more
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Coursera’s Intro to Data Science Returns
The Coursera platform will once again be hosting the amazing course Introduction to Data Science from the University of Washington. The course will start June 30, 2014. It is free, and it will last 8 weeks. Having taken the course the previous time it was offered, I would highly recommend the course for anyone interested… Read more
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7 Browser-based IDEs for Coding on Chromebook
Although an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is not always essential for data science, building data products often requires a complete development environment and not just statistical analysis. In my quest to be able to perform all my web development and data science work on a chromebook, it is essential to have a development environment in… Read more
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Learn Sabermetrics – The Theory of Moneyball
Would you like to learn the secrets behind the baseball movie, MoneyBall? Lucky for you, EdX is offering just the course for you. And it is free! Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics. Hurry up, the class starts Thursday, May 29, 2014. If you have never seen the movie Moneyball, you need to watch the… Read more
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Using Python to Collect data from the Twitter API
Have you ever wished you could create your own dataset from the vast data available from Twitter? Well, wish no longer. I used the Sense Platform to Create a Dataset of Users from the Twitter API. Feel free to use this example to create your own datasets. The next great thing about Sense is: You… Read more
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Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook is free and open source. You can view a version on the internet for free or order a physical book for a small fee. If you are interested in journalism and adding data to that writing, this handbook looks to be an excellent resource. Read more
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Sense: Data Science Platform of the Future
I have been lucky enough to get early access to Sense, a new data science startup. They are building the “data science platform” of the future. They provide the ability to edit and run all your R, Python, and Javascript code right in your browser. So far, I am extremely impressed. I love having the… Read more
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Big Data Will Change Our Lives
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Analytics Handbook is Free – 2 Books, tons of great interviews
Three students from the University of California Berkeley have set out a mission to inform young professionals about the importance of data, big data, and data science. The name of the project is Analytics Handbook, and so far there are 2 books available for free. The books consist of very detailed interviews with some of… Read more
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