Ryan Swanstrom

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  • International School of Engineering Programs Beginning Soon

    I recently received the following information. International School of Engineering is announcing their 3rd batch of live e-Learning certificate programs starting 4-Sep-2013 in “Engineering Big Data with R and Hadoop Ecosystem” and “Essentials of Applied Predictive Analytics” (http://goo.gl/kHckP). These programs helped Engineers and Managers transform into Hadoop Developers/Data Scientists, get industry certifications, revolutionize their workspace… Read more

  • Undergraduate Programs in Data Science

    While most of the degrees on the list of Colleges with Data Science Degrees are master’s degrees, there are a few schools offering data science as an undergraduate program. College of Charleston – B.S. in Data Science University of San Francisco – B.S. in Data Science University of Iowa – B.A. in Business Analytics Northern… Read more

  • 3 Top Data Scientists Change Jobs

    Three of the Top Data Scientists have recently changed jobs. Name Former Company New Company Announcement Hilary Mason Bit.ly Data Scientist in Residence @ Accel Partners Techcrunch DJ Patil Greylock Partners VP of Product @ RelateIQ Techcrunch Monica Rogati LinkedIn VP of Data @ Jawbone Techcrunch Read more

  • Online Regular Expression Helpers

    Do you ever have a regular expression you want to verify? If so, here are 3 quick sites to help you do that. Regular Expression Editors Online PyRegex Pythex Rubular If you are unsure what regular expressions are, see Regular-Expressions.info for a tutorial. Read more

  • More Recommender Systems Resources

    Last week I posted about Coursera’s Introduction to Recommender Systems course. Well, I believe it is the first MOOC on the topic, but there are other material available online. Open.Michigan course on Recommender Systems – the course was offered in 2009 Virginia Tech course on Recommender Systems – This course is a bit older, it… Read more

  • You Don’t Need a PhD to do Data Science

    Many of the top data scientists you will read about or hear speak have PhD degrees. Therefore, many people think a PhD is a requirement for becoming a data scientist. That is completely not true. There is a lot of work in the data science field that does not require a PhD. In all actuality,… Read more

  • An extensive glossary of big data terminology

    Are you ever confused about some of the terms dealing with big data? If so, here is a link for you. It provides countless big data terms and a brief definition. Big Data Startups | An extensive glossary of big data terminology. Read more

  • Coursera Class on Recommender Systems

    In about 1 month, the course, Introduction to Recommender Systems, will begin on Coursera. The course is being offered by the Computer Science and Engineering Department from the University of Minnesota. The course is 14 weeks long and has 2 tracks: Programming Track – 6 different recommender systems will be programmed Concept Track – great… Read more

  • Introduction to Apache Mahout Slides

    Although Apache Mahout is not an absolute beginners topic in data science, this slide deck provides a nice overview of machine learning, and it provides some excellent links at the end. In case you are wondering, Mahout is a scalable machine learning library for very large data sets. The slides were prepared by Varad Meru.… Read more

  • How To Build Data Science Teams?

    Companies everywhere are struggling to assemble data science teams. Here are a couple of videos to help answer the following questions and more. How do you assemble a team? What skills do you need? Where do you look for data scientists?   DJ Patil, one of the stars of the data science world, answers a… Read more

  • Infogr.am – Awesome Interactive Infographics

    Inforgr.am is a website for creating interactive infographics. Strangely, the site is new to me even though nearly 1 million “infograms” have already been created. Here are some of the features: Use more than 30 different chart types Edit data with a built-in spreadsheet Download the infographic Share on all your favorite social sites Some… Read more

  • Facebook dominates Social Networking

    The Real Data on Facebook vs. Google+ is a great article about the popularity of different social networks. All the big social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterests, and even Myspace) are included. If you have ever wondered whether Google+ is dead or not, this article will help you out. After the data was gathered… Read more

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