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Big Data: Book Review
Not too long ago, I was in an airport looking for a book to help pass the time. I was thrilled to find a book with Big Data in the title, so I took it and started reading. The book is titled, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.… Read more
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Win-Vector Blog » Data Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics: what is in a name?
Win-Vector Blog » Data Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics: what is in a name?. This is an excellent write-up for the differences between: Statistics Machine Learning Data Mining Informatics Big Data Predictive Analytics Data Science Read more
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4 Reasons to use Hadoop for Data Science
Why hadoop for data science? from Hortonworks Read more
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Microsoft Machine Learning Summit Live Stream
The 2013 Microsoft Research Machine Learning Learning Summit will be broadcast live today. Read more
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Work-Force Science
As of yesterday, I was completely new to the term work-force science. Essentially, work-force science is data analysis applied to Human Resources. It makes more sense than the old gut feeling approach. If you want to know more, see this excellent article from the New York Times, Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers. The… Read more
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Coursera Machine Learning Starts Today
Andrew Ng’s wonderful Coursera course on machine learning starts today. It is not too late to sign up. Read more
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New York Times Data Science Articles
In just the last couple days, the New York Times has published 2 great articles about data science. Have a look for yourself. Data Science: The Numbers of our lives – Universities offer courses in data science This is a nice read about universities starting to offer data science options. Geek Appeal: New York vs.… Read more
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Sites for Data Science Jobs
New Data Scientist jobs are being posted everyday. Due to the many different job titles of a data scientist, it can be difficult to find the right job postings. Here is a list of sites that post only data science related jobs. Kaggle Job Board icrunchdata Analytic Talent KDnuggets Jobs in Data Mining and Analytics… Read more
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Best Free Data Mining Tools
I recently saw the article, The Best Data Mining Tools You Can Use for Free in Your Company. It contains a very brief description of each of the following tools. RapidMiner RapidAnalytics Weka PSPP KNIME Orange Apache Mahout jHepWork Rattle See The Best Data Mining Tools You Can Use for Free in Your Company for… Read more
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Another Columbia Data Science Course
This spring Columbia University is offering another course on Data Science. This one is targeted at introductory graduate students in math, and it is not intended to be an advanced machine learning course. The goal is to expose people with strong mathematical skill to some of the ideas from software development and machine learning without… Read more
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New Graph Database Book
O’Reilly is releasing a free early (unedited) edition of the book, Graph Databases. The book is authored by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, and Emil Eifrém. All three authors are members of Neo Technology, the maker of the super-popular Neo4j graph database. Read more
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Become a data scientist in 12 intense weeks
Want to learn Data Science in 12 weeks? Zipfian Academy is offering just that. The inaugural class will begin Fall 2013. Also the schedule is five days a week from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., so it is a very intensive program. You must be willing to relocate to San Francisco for the 12 weeks.… Read more
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