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Alasdair Allan Strata 2012 London
Alasdair Allan gives a very entertaining talk. I love what he did with his hotel room lock, or rather what he “absolutely not under any circumstances …” did with his hotel room lock. Read more
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Strata London 2012 Videos
If you were not able to attend the Strata 2012 London conference, have no fear because the Strata 2012 London videos are available online. I believe all of the keynotes and some additional interviews are all available. Read more
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blog.untrod.com: Engineering Practices in Data Science
This is a great post by Chris Clark of Kaggle. It explains some of the primary differences among engineers and statisticians. Both groups have something to learn from each other. blog.untrod.com: Engineering Practices in Data Science. Read more
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Java and MongoDB Webinars
10gen, the company behind MongoDB, will be offering some free webinars this fall. This webinar series is targeted at using MongoDB with Java. 10gen has been running successful webinars for a long time, so I would high recommend any/all of the following sessions. Title Date Building your first Java Application with MongoDB Oct. 18, 2012… Read more
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Mind Reading And Data Science
I am not a huge fan of mind reading, but this video is good. Watch the whole thing now. It is only about 2 minutes long. If you watched the whole video, you will get the connection to data science.Thanks to Mark Nickel for sharing a link. Read more
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This is a great list of traits for the next generation of data scientists. Read more
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Big Data E-Learning Programs
The International School of Engineering is launching 2 new online programs. Both are certificate programs and last 7 or 8 weeks. Both programs just started this week. Engineering Big Data with R and Hadoop Ecosystem This program will cover Hadoop, R, map reduce and NoSQL Essential Predictive Analytic Techniques: What Every Aspiring Data Scientist Must… Read more
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StrataRx Free Online Conference
Tomorrow, October 5, 2012, at 10am Pacific Time, O’Reilly will be hosting StrataRx. I have attended other Strata online conferences and they are good. So, if data science and personalized medicine are of interest to you, then you should signup. Read more
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How Employers will use Data Science in the Future
I recently read the article, Facebook’s Gen Y Nightmare. It is worth reading (or at least skimming). Here are the highlights of the article. In 8 to 10 years, a fictitious company named Narrative Data will be able to perform character and personality analysis. Narrative Data will analyze peoples social media accounts and other online… Read more
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A very nice visualization post from the Columbia Data Science class. The Venn Diagram at the bottom is good (by “good” I mean funny because it makes no sense). Read more
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New York City Foursquare Data Video
Blake Shaw, a data scientist at Foursquare, gave a great talk at Datagotham. The visualization of New York City check-ins, at the beginning of the video, is simply amazing. It is worth watching the video just for that. However, after seeing that great visualization, you will be persuaded to watch the rest of the video.… Read more
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The Statistical Sleuth in R
Nicholas Horton, Professor of Statistics at Smith College, has published a nice set of R tutorials that go along with the book The Statistical Sleuth. If you are looking to learn R, this might be a good place to start. Once again, see the R tutorials here. Read more
Data Science 101
One of the oldest blogs on data science, started in 2012.
Threads Dev Interviews
Interviews with Developers on Threads