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Coursera Computational Methods of Data Analysis Started
The Coursera class Computational Methods of Data Analysis started yesterday. There is still plenty of time to enroll in the class. This course assumes a good familiarity with calculus, linear algebra, and some basic programming. Thus, if your math background is weak or needs a refresher, you may not want to take this course. However,… Read more
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Elements of Statistical Learning Textbook (Free)
The Elements of Statistical Learning textbook is available for free. It is a classic, widely-used textbooks for statistics and machine learning. Here is a far from complete list of some of the topics: Supervised Learning Linear/Logistic Regression Regularization Model Selection Trees Neural Networks Support Vector Machines Random Forests Unsupervised Learning Clustering As you can see,… Read more
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UC Berkeley Course Lectures: Analyzing Big Data With Twitter | Analyzing Big Data with Twitter
UC Berkeley Course Lectures: Analyzing Big Data With Twitter | Analyzing Big Data with Twitter. The link includes videos and lecture notes from the course. Read more
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50 Top Open Source Tools for Big Data – Datamation
50 Top Open Source Tools for Big Data – Datamation. The list is about 6 months old, but it still covers all the ones I would have listed and quite a few more. Read more
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Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News
Top ten algorithms in data mining (2007) [pdf] | Hacker News. The discussion below the link is also very good. If you are curious, here are the 10 algorithms, and the paper is displayed below. C4.5 k-Means SVM Apriori EM PageRank AdaBoost kNN Naive Bayes CART Read more
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Enterprise Software Doesn’t Have to Suck: Software engineer’s guide to getting started with data science
Enterprise Software Doesn't Have to Suck: Software engineer's guide to getting started with data science. If you know how to code and want to learn data science, this post has some enlightening material. Read more
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Computing for Data Analysis Starts Today
Coursera’s Computing for Data Analysis starts today. Enroll now and start learning R and data analysis. Read more
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Make 2013 Your Year for Learning Data Science
While the buzz around bigdata might die down a bit in 2013, the main ideas of data science are not going away. Being able to make smart decisions based upon data is a concept that is here to stay. In fact, 2013 might be the best year ever to start learning data science skills. Colleges… Read more
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5 Free Programming Languages for Data Science
R There is a package for nearly any algorithm you will ever need. That is where R really excels. It is widely used and has a strong community. The only slight downfall (in my opinion) is the cumbersome syntax. Python A very good language for beginning programmers. The syntax is quite readable and intuitive. With… Read more
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Some Numbers on the Top Data Scientists
After creating the lists Top 5 Data Science Gals and Top 5 Data Science Guys, I noticed a couple commonalities. 7 of the 10 (assuming Drew finishes) have PhDs 5 of the 10 are from the New York City area Did you notice anything I missed? Read more
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Top 5 Data Science Guys
DJ Patil DJ is one of the most recognizable faces in data science. He is constantly speaking at conference and appearing in the news articles. He is currently Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners. Also, he helped create the term data scientist. Jeff Hammerbacher Jeff helped build the first data science team at Facebook.… Read more
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One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
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