Ryan Swanstrom

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  • Data Science Down The Toilet

    Quick Backstory A few weeks back one of my children flushed an unknown item (toy or something) down one of the toilets. Well, it caused some problems, and the toilet was not working properly. So, I did what any reasonable person in 2012 would do. I googled for plumbers in my area and called one… Read more

  • Coursera Announces College Credit

    Yesterday, Coursera announced that students will soon be able to earn college credits for some of the courses. See the blog post with the college credit announcement. Read more

  • New Project: Data Science 201

    In case you missed my slides I posted this weekend, the end of the presentation mentions a new project I am starting to create. It is called Data Science 201. The goal is simple: To be the best place on the web for learning about all topics in data science Blogging is great, but there… Read more

  • Why You Should Care About Data Science [slides]

    These are some slides from a talk I gave at South Dakota Code Camp. I also could have titled the presentation, “How to Learn Data Science.” Also, the slides contain lots of links to other resources. Enjoy! Read more

  • Strata/Hadoop World Videos are Posted

    Strata Conference/Hadoop World NYC 2012 videos are now available on Youtube. All the videos are not there, but most of the keynotes and some extra interviews are available. Read more

  • Why Data Science Is Hard To Teach At School

    Cathy O’Neil(on the right) provides some great details about why it is difficult to teach data science in college. She also mentions that some of the best people to lead data science programs are probably not publishing papers. They are working in industry. Read more

  • Microsoft Renews Relevance With Machine Learning Technology – NYTimes.com

    Microsoft has been doing machine learning for a long time, and it looks like some of those efforts might soon pay off. How do you think this will work out for Microsoft? Microsoft Renews Relevance With Machine Learning Technology – NYTimes.com. Read more

  • Election Day and Twitter

    The Twitter Political Index tries to evaluate people’s feeling about the United States presidential candidates. There is loads of data science behind this calculation. Currently, it has Barack Obama in the lead with a score of 66, and Mitt Romney trailing with a score of 56. Do you know of any other sites trying to… Read more

  • Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies | TechCrunch

    Open Source Software can be great. TechCruch lists 5 fairly new open source technologies for big data. This is probably a good list to pay attention to for the near future. Storm Drill R Gremlin SAP Hana If you are unfamiliar with some of software on the list, please read the article for more details.… Read more

  • Data Science Webinar

    David Smith of Revolution Analytics will be presenting a webinar tomorrow, Thursday, November 1, 2012. The webinar is titled, The Rise of Data Science in the Age of Big Data Analytics: Why data distillation and machine learning aren’t enough. Registration for the webinar is free. David Smith is one of the most popular bloggers on… Read more

  • Drew Conway Monktoberfest Talk

    Drew provides a nice analysis of the popularity of programming languages. Read more

  • Wanna be a Data Scientist at the CIA?

    The Central Intelligence Agency is hiring data scientists. They appear to be hiring at multiple levels. Unfortunately, the position description is quite vague. It is tough to know exactly what the CIA is looking for and technologies are currently being used at the CIA. Data Scientist Job Posting at the CIA Read more

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