Ryan Swanstrom

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  • Free Textbook: Mining of Massive Datasets

    A few professors from Stanford University have released version 1.1 of their textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets. The book has been created from materials used for a couple of Stanford computer science classes including large-scale data-mining and web mining. The book looks excellent and really focuses on the analysis of data at a large scale.… Read more

  • Olympic Numbers Infographic

    As the Olympics are coming to a close, here is one more infographic. There are a lot of nice numbers here. The athlete caloric intake section is fun. Michael Phelps must be eating all the time. There is also a section about Acer computers. Acer installed 11,000 computers and 900 servers. Other than competition results,… Read more

  • Strata Healthcare Conference

    O’Reilly just announced the creation of a new conference focusing on data science and healthcare. It is named StrataRx 2012. The conference will take place in San Francisco on October 16-17, 2012. Read more

  • Social Media and The Olympics Infographic

    Learn about data visualization software</. Read more

  • New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class

    Thanks to Ed for leaving the comment yesterday. I have reposted the comment here because I thought it was so good. Looks like Coursera added a new data science course entitled “Web Intelligence and Big Data” while nobody was looking! Plus, it starts at the end of the month, for those who can’t wait until… Read more

  • Neo4j and Bioinformatics Webinar

    Neo Technology, the company behind the graph database Neo4j, is hosting a webinar on Thursday. Pablo Pareja from the Bio4j project will provide an overview of bioinformatics and neo4j, as well as some applications. Bioinformatics can be viewed as data science for biology. Bioinformatics was cool before data science was even a term. If you… Read more

  • This will probably be a good series to follow. What machine learning options are available? Read more

  • Coursera Ted Talk

    Daphne Koller of Coursera gives a very intriguing TedTalk. She even throws out some good data. The machine learning class would have to be taught on-campus for 250 years to reach the same amount of students enrolled in the online class last fall. Here are some other impressive numbers. 640,000 students 190 countries 1.5 million… Read more

  • New York City, Columbia University and Data Science

    New York City and Columbia University just announced plans to launch the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. The plan is to add 44,000 new square feet of space for labs and other resources. Also, 75 new faculty members are slated to be added in the next 15 years. The following are the proposed main… Read more

  • The Data Stack: A Structured Approach

    The Data Stack: A Structured ApproachThis is great post about the data stack at Factual. Read more

  • An Infographic On Self Learning

    With the large increases in college tuition and the ever increasing amount of information available on the internet. It is no wonder many people are trying to learn new skills on their own. Data Science is one of those disciplines that many people are turning to the internet to acquire the necessary skills. The problem… Read more

  • Learn Data Science

    Starting Point If you have the necessary background in math, statistics, and computer science; then it is a good time to learn some data science specific skills. Coursera just recently launched a course specifically devoted to Data Science. It is titled: Introduction to Data Science. The course is being taught by Bill Howe of the… Read more

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