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The Data Science Methodology
Data Science Methodology Problem Formulation – First, identify the problem to be solved. This step is easily overlooked. However, many dollars and hours have been spent solving the wrong problems. Obtain The Data – Next, collect new data and/or gather the data that already exists. In almost all cases, this data will need to be… Read more
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What is a “Data Lake”?
I have frequently been hearing the term data lake. Being the curious person that I am, I decided to go in search of a definition. Currently, the company Pivotal is responsible for marketing the term. However, I believe the term was originally coined by Dan Woods of CITO Research back in 2011. Anyhow, here is… Read more
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New Wolfram Programming Language
Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica, just announced the new Wolfram Programming Language. This is really exciting and cool, so please take some time to watch the video. I think this might be a game changer in data science. Read more
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Data Mining with Weka MOOC
Professor Ian Witten of The University of Waikato has just begun his second iteration of the online course, Data Mining With Weka. Hurry, because the course started March 3, but there is still time to register and complete the course. The course lasts 5 weeks and covers how to analyze your own data with Weka.… Read more
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Twitter Open Data Grants
Twitter has just released the idea of a Data Grant. You have to login with your twitter account to see the details. The gist is: Twitter will provide you with historical twitter data for research purposes. What could you do with this data? Read more
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Strata Conference 2014 Keynote Videos
The keynote videos from the 2014 Strata conference are now available on the Strata Youtube Channel. Here is a thought-provoking video about data science for sports. Read more
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US Government Open Data Initiative
The United States White House has developed Project Open Data to encourage government agencies to share and produce opendata. According the Project: The White House developed Project Open Data – this collection of code, tools, and case studies – to help agencies adopt the Open Data Policy and unlock the potential of government data. Here… Read more
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$10M for University of Virginia Data Science
The University of Virginia just announced a $10M endowment to support its new Data Science Institute. The University of Virginia is in the closing stages of creating a Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) and the eventual goal is to have an undergraduate minor and a Ph.D. program in Data Science. The curriculum for… Read more
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Strata Conference 2014 Live Video
The Strata 2014 Conference began this week and many of the keynotes will be livestreamed. The live streaming starts today (Wednesday, Feb. 12) and continues tomorrow. [gigya src=”http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=oreillystrata&color=0xe7e7e7&autoPlay=false&mute=false&iconColorOver=0x888888&iconColor=0x777777″ width=”480″ height=”295″ quality=”high” wmode=”transparent” allowFullScreen=”true” ] Watch live streaming video from oreillystrata at livestream.com Read more
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Udacity Offers Data Science Certificate Track
Udacity now offers a Data Science Track. It is a series of courses to provide a person with data science skills. The courses are: Intro to Computer Science Intro to Statistics Intro to Data Science Exploratory Data Analysis Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce Data Wrangling with MongoDB The Introduction to Data Science course just opened.… Read more
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Learn Data Science Online with DataCamp
If you are looking to get started in the field of data science in 2014, then DataCamp just might be the site for you. DataCamp, formerly DataMind provides a tutorial for interactive data analysis in the browser. The data analysis is taught using R. The DataCamp platform provides: Courses to learn data science A Platform… Read more
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