Ryan Swanstrom

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  • Big Data and Medicine: Who is working on it?

    I previously posted about Data Science and Doctor Visits. What I would like to know. Who is working on data science problems for medicine? I would love to hear some answers to this. They can be individual researchers, startups, or established companies. If I get some responses, I will be sure to post a list… Read more

  • New Data Science Journal

    Springer has just release a new data science journal named EPJ Data Science. The journal is open access which means that articles are freely available online. That catch is that people whom submit articles must pay a fee for publication. Sometimes the fee will be covered by the author’s university or company. Anyhow, if you… Read more

  • Data Science And Doctor Visits

    Electronic Doctor Visit I recently received a message from one of the local hospitals. It stated that I can now have an electronic visit with my doctor. Here is how I understand it works. I fill out a brief questionnaire explaining some of my symptoms and submit it online. Within one day, my doctor will… Read more

  • Nice discussion of Hadoop and Storm and where each one is most useful. Read more

  • New Data Science eBook – Free and Open-Source

    Jeffrey M. Stanton, member of Syracuse University’s iSchool, just released an open-source ebook about data science. Obviously this book is intended to be used in the curriculum for the new Data Science Certificate Program. In particular, it will be used for two courses on analytics and visualization. The book is available in the iTunes store… Read more

  • Take and Learn Statistics For Free

    Last week, Udacity started a course on Introduction to Statistics, Making Decisions Based on Data. This is a beginners level course on statistics, so it should be accessible to everyone. The course consists of seven units, which are intended to last about one week each. Udacity does not enforce any time limits though. Homework problems… Read more

  • Data From eReaders

    Reading Your E-book is Reading You in the Wall Street Journal, is an excellent example of data science. Book publishers now know how much of a book readers will finish, how long they read, what book they read next, and lots of other stuff. Read the article and find out more. It also opens the… Read more

  • Machine Learning for Hackers

    Hilary Mason provides another great talk title: Unfortunately, as of February 2020, this video is no longer available. Read more

  • What Dataset Would You Love To Have?

    Human Trafficking I think a dataset related to human trafficking would be interesting. It would need to contain: when, where, and the age of the person kidnapped. It could also contain the eventual location of the victim. I don’t know that any organisation has this data. Many times the kidnappings occur unknowingly or the persons… Read more

  • The Data Scientific Method

    DJ Patil and Josh Elman, both of Greylock Partners, give an insightful talk at LeWeb London 2012. The most important part was the introduction of the Data Scientific Method. Data Scientific Method Start with a Question Leverage your current data Create features and run tests Analyze the results and draw insights Let the data frame… Read more

  • BigData and the GraphDB

    https://speakerdeck.com/u/okram/p/titan-the-rise-of-big-graph-data This presentation introduces Titan, which is a new graph database for bigdata. It integrates with a backend of either Cassandra or Hbase. Titan is created by Aurelius. Read more

  • OpenIntro (Free online Stats Book) is getting a new version. The updates sound good. If you are looking to learn statistics, this is an excellent and cost effective solution. Read more

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