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Thank You For The Half A Million Pageviews
As of yesterday, the Data Science 101 blog has hit 500,000 page views. Thank you to everyone that has read a post, commented, tweeted, liked, disliked, shared a link, or emailed me regarding the blog. I have enjoyed it so far. Now here is a few numbers about the blog. Colleges with Data Science Degrees… Read more
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Big Data Jobs Are Booming…And So Are the Salaries
Lots of Big Data Jobs iCrunchData, one of the most popular data science job sites, keeps an index of the data science job market. Recently, the index just passed 500,000 big data jobs posted online. That is a phenomenal number, and it just goes to show the massive need for more people with big data… Read more
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Data scientists need their own GitHub. Here are four of the best options
This article contains some really great information. I think these startups have huge potential. Currently, I am a big fan of Sense. I will hopefully be posting more about Sense in the coming days. Read more
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Big Dive – Data Science training in Italy
Big Dive is a 5-week Big Data training program offered in Italy. The program is not free, but it has a great layout of topics. The program focuses on 3 main themes: Development Visualization Data Science Big Dive runs from early June to mid-July, and the admissions deadline is April 27, 2014. Read more
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Coursera Data Science Specialization – Started This Week
Coursera now offers a Data Science Specialization. The courses are taught by Johns Hopkins University. If you would like to earn a Specialization Certificate, each course will cost you $49 otherwise you can take the courses for free without earning the certificate. Best of all, the first course started this week (April 7, 2014). The… Read more
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Insight Data Engineering – A Free Tuition Training Program
The creators is the Insight Data Science Fellows Program have done it again. This time they have created the Insight Data Engineering Program. The program aims to training highly specialized software engineers that can build big data systems and big data pipelines. Unlike the data science program, the data engineering program does not target people… Read more
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DataKind Looking For Local Chapters
DataKind, the organization matching nonprofits and data scientists, is looking for applications for Local Chapters. The motto for DataKind is: Let’s use data to change the world. DataKind hopes to add 3-5 chapters by the end of 2014. A Chapter will be responsible for building relationships between organiztions and data scientists, promoting data science for… Read more
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How Data Will Transform Business
Collaboration is going to become an extremely important part of business strategy. Data Science will be a part of that. Read more
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BrightTALK Data Science Summit
On March 19th and 20th of 2014 (that is Wednesday and Thursday), BrightTALK will be hosting a virtual Data Science Summit. The event starts off with Kirk Borne, Professor at George Mason University, presenting on Data Science: Concepts and Missteps. The event continues with 5 more talks on Wednesday and 3 more talks on Thursday.… Read more
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Google Data Science MOOC
Google recently announced the launch of their own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course is titled, Making Sense of Data, and it begins tomorrow, March 18, 2014. The prerequisites are quite simple. All that is needed is: a google account, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of spreadsheets. The content of the course… Read more
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The Art of Good Practice – Strata Video
This is definitely not the typical Strata talk. Rodney Mullen, The Godfather of Street Skating, gives a very thought-provoking talk. I do not really follow skateboarding, but Rodney is widely considered one of the best skateboarders on the planet. I would say the talk applies to data science, but I would also say it applies… Read more
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