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Machine Learning from CalTech
Once again, California Institute of Technology will be broadcasting Learning From Data online. This is an introductory course on machine learning. All of the videos are broadcast live, and online homework and discussion forums are available. I have not participated in the course, so I would love some comments about how this class compares with… Read more
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Free Open-Source Statistics Cookbook
Matthias Vallentin, a computer science PhD student at UC Berkeley, has published a Probability and Statistics Cookbook. The book can be freely downloaded in PDF format via the website. Also, the latex source is available on Github. Matthias states that others are free to fork the source and make changes. The book is not a… Read more
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Numberfire does Sports Analytics
Have you ever seen the movie Moneyball? It is about winning baseball games with a low budget and great data science (that is a gross oversimplification). Well, Numberfire tries to do that on way more sports than just baseball. Numberfire considers themselves a Sports Analytics company. I had never heard of Numberfire before, and just… Read more
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“The Human Face of Big Data” is an intriquing project. Check it out. Read more
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Jake Porway of DataKind
Jake Porway of DataKind gives another entertaining talk. This one is more of a Superhero story. Just watch the video, and it will make sense. Read more
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Data Science for the NFL
This video was different than I expected. I expected to hear how the National Football League (NFL) is using player statistics for better player acquisition and fantasy football. However, the talk was about the NFL business model. The business model of the NFL focuses on filling stadiums. Thus the NFL starting collecting data about why… Read more
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DataGotham Videos Online
DataGotham, a New York City Data Science Conference, has posted all the videos of the conference online. Feel free to watch them all. In the coming days, I will also be posting some of my favorites. Read more
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Coursera Adds 17 New Universities
Just Announced, Coursera adds 17 new universities. Those universities include Columbia and Brown, as well as a few international universities. A few notable courses for data science are: a new machine learning course from the University of Washington, Linear Algebra from Brown, and Natural Language Processing by Michael Collins from Columbia. See the following pages… Read more
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Python Number Crunching Workshop
If you are in the Washington D.C. area, Data Science DC is hosting a Workshop on Number Crunching in Python. The workshop is November 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the GWU campus. Read more
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Video: Big Data Summit – Training data scientists – 11 Jul 2012 – Computing News
This is a nice video discussing some good ideas when training data scientists. It does have an academic perspective. Video: Big Data Summit – Training data scientists – 11 Jul 2012 – Computing News. Read more
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DataGotham Live Stream
Data Gotham, the New York City Data Science Conference, is live streaming the presentations today. Things are already underway, so you should be able to go to the site and start watching. Read more
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Peter Skomoroch Discusses Data Science
Peter Skomoroch, Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn, provides a very nice interview. Peter answers some great questions about: What is a data scientist? transitioning from a techy person to a data scientist transitioning from a math person to data scientist what are the skills needed for a data scientist? Sorry, but I could not embed… Read more
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Threads Dev Interviews
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